Robert Adams
'Denver'
Lot #14 |
2023-10-25 |
Sotheby's, New York
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Category:
Drawing
Estimate:
USD 12,000 - 18,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N11322
Auction name: Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2023-10-25
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Photography
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 6 by 6 in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
15.2
Width In Centimeters:
15.2
Height In Inches:
6
Width In Inches:
6
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Provenance
Collection of Alexandra Bowes, San Francisco Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2006
Exhibited
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present , September 1996 – January 1997 San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition , March – June 2010 Catalogue note The print offered here – mounted to illustration board and with the photographer’s precise hand-ruled ink border – is characteristic of Robert Adams’s early presentation. Other print of this image is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Literature
Susan Fillin-Yeh, Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home (Portland: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, 2002), pl. II
Catalog summary
Robert Adams B. 1937 'Denver' gelatin silver print, mounted to Bainbridge illustration board with a hand-ruled ink border, signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1973; accompanied by an exhibition label from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art image: 6 by 6 in. (15.2 by 15.2 cm.) frame: 17¾ by 14½ in. (45.1 by 36.8 cm.) Provenance Collection of Alexandra Bowes, San Francisco Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2006 Literature Susan Fillin-Yeh, Sunlight, Solitude, Democracy, Home (Portland: Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, 2002), pl. II Exhibited San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present , September 1996 – January 1997 San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition , March – June 2010 Catalogue note The print offered here – mounted to illustration board and with the photographer’s precise hand-ruled ink border – is characteristic of Robert Adams’s early presentation. Other print of this image is in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.