Evening Clouds, Sierra Nevada from Owens Valley, California, c. 1962

Price realised USD 17,500

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Evening Clouds, Sierra Nevada from Owens Valley, California, c. 1962

Price realised USD 17,500

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Evening Clouds, Sierra Nevada from Owens Valley, California, c. 1962
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed mid-1960s–1970
signed in pencil (mount, recto); stamped Carmel credits [BMFA 7 & 8] with title in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 15 3/8 x 19 3/4 in. (39 x 50 cm.)
mount: 21 3/4 x 28 in. (55.2 x 71 cm.)

Photographs By Ansel Adams From A California Collection; Christie's, New York, April 11, 2008, lot 1083;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Ansel Adams and Paul Brooks, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 1979, pl. 42.
John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1981, Portfolio IV, pl. 15.
Ansel Adams and James Alinder, An Autobiography, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 1986, p. 216.
Anne Hammond, Ansel Adams: Divine Performance, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, fig. 4.22, p. 108-109.
Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Co., New York, 2007, p. 401.

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