Apr 20, 2017 - Sale 2443

Sale 2443 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 42,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 45,000
ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984)
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. Silver print, the image measuring 15 1/8x19 1/4 inches (38.3x48.9 cm.), the mount 21 7/8x28 inches (55.6x71.1 cm.), with Adams' signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and his Carmel hand stamp, with the title and date, in ink, in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1941; printed circa 1976

Additional Details

From the Edward Carter Gallery, New York, New York; to a Private Collector, in the 1990s.

Among numerous other publications, the image has been reproduced in:

Ansel Adams (Morgan & Morgan), pl. 63.

Alinder and Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images (New York Graphic Society), p. 32.

Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: The Grand Canyon and the Southwest (Boston), frontispiece.

Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), pl. 96.

Haas and Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), pl. 37.

Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston), p. 175.