Ansel Adams
‘Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California’ , 1902 (Birth-Death)
Lot #114 |
2026-04-08 |
Sotheby's, New York
Photographs Part II
Category:
Photography
Estimate:
USD 20,000 - 30,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N12135
Auction name: Photographs Part II
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2026-04-08
End date: 2026-04-16
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
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Genre: Photography
Department: Photography & Video
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Year notes: Ansel Adams lived from 1902 to 1984.
Provenance
Collection of Anne Adams Helms (the photographer's daughter) By descent through family to the present owner
Literature
Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light , Boston 1979), p. 68 Ansel Adams and Robert Turnage, Celebrating the American Earth: A Portfolio by Ansel Adams , Washington, D. C.: The Wilderness Society 1980, unpaginated James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images , Boston 1985, pl. 65 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams , Boston 1995, p. 68 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs , Boston 2007, p. 410 Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 , Boston 2014, p. 196
Catalog summary
Ansel Adams 1902 - 1984 ‘Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California’ gelatin silver print, mounted to Hi-Art illustration board, signed in ink on the mount, the photographer’s Carmel studio stamps (BMFA 7 & 8), titled, dated and annotated in ink, and a collection stamp on the reverse image: 15 ¼ by 19 ⅜ in. (38.7 by 49.2 cm.) Executed circa 1968, probably printed between 1963 and 1970. Provenance Collection of Anne Adams Helms (the photographer's daughter) By descent through family to the present owner Literature Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light , Boston 1979), p. 68 Ansel Adams and Robert Turnage, Celebrating the American Earth: A Portfolio by Ansel Adams , Washington, D. C.: The Wilderness Society 1980, unpaginated James Alinder and John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images , Boston 1985, pl. 65 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Yosemite: Ansel Adams , Boston 1995, p. 68 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs , Boston 2007, p. 410 Peter Galassi, Ansel Adams in Yosemite Valley: Celebrating the Park at 150 , Boston 2014, p. 196