Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1927

Name: ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Brand: Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1927
Price: 32000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 40,000

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Closed: 12 Oct 2017

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)

Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1927

Price Realised USD 40,000

Closed: 12 Oct 2017

Price Realised USD 40,000

Closed: 12 Oct 2017

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ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California, 1927
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed before 1952
signed in pencil (mount, recto); signed in ink, stamped photographer's San Francisco credit [BMFA 4] with title and date '1926' in ink, and credited, titled on affixed Museum of Modern Art exhibition label (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm.)
mount: 18 x 14 in. (45.8 x 35.5 cm.)

Gifted by the artist, 1982.

John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1977, Portfolio III, p. 49.
Paul Brooks, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1979, pl. 54.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1989, p. 2.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2007, pp. 35 and 414.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012, p. 42.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Diogenes with a Camera II, November 25, 1952–March 8, 1953, no. 15.

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