Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 5,520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ADAMS, ANSEL (1902-1984)
Twisted tree and boulder * "Lower Cathedral Rock, Yosemite" * "Rocks and Oak Tree, Yosemite." Together, 3 Unique Polaroid Type 52 prints, 3 1/2x4 1/2 inches (8.9x11.4 cm.), and the reverse, the second with technical notations, in ink, on recto and verso; each framed, the first with a Polaroid Collection label, and the first and second with the Property of the Polaroid Corporate Archives hand stamp on verso. 1975, 1956 & circa 1977

Additional Details

with--Selected group of 3 unique Polaroid Type 52 prints, comprising "Boulders and Crevice," "Ocean--Worn Rock," and "Boulders and Lichen," each framed, the first two with a Polaroid Collection stamp on verso. 1975-1977.
From the Polaroid Collection.
"Boulders and Crevice" and "Ocean--Worn Rock" were exhibited in Pittsburgh, Ansel Adams at Silver Eye Center for Photography, November 1999-2000; Quito, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, sponsored by the Embassy of the United States, From the Polaroid Collection: Ansel Adams, October-November 2001, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2003; Naples, Florida, Museum of Art, Ansel Adams and Edwin Land: Art, Science and Invention, Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, May-July 2004, and traveling to 8 other venues through 2007.