Name: ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Brand: Portfolio Three: Yosemite Valley; Sixteen Original Prints by Ansel Adams
Price: 65000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Portfolio Three: Yosemite Valley; Sixteen Original Prints by Ansel Adams
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960. Sixteen gelatin silver prints, mounted on board; each signed in ink (mount, recto); each numbered sequentially '1-16' from a set of '185' in Sierra Club portfolio credit limitation stamp (mount, verso); each image/sheet approximately 8 x 11 in. (20.3 x 27.9 cm.) or the reverse, each mount 14 x 17⁷⁄₈ in. (35.5 x 45.4 cm.); text inserts, numbered '185' in red ink (on the colophon); number 92 from the edition of 200; with green folding portfolio case with gold lettering 18 x 14¹⁄₂ in. (45.7 x 36.8 cm.)

Christie's, New York, May 31, 2015, lot 226;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The plates are as follows:
Monolith, The Face of Half Dome, ca. 1927 (11 x 8in.)
Merced River, Cliffs of Cathedral Rocks, Autumn, 1939 (7 1/8 x 9in.)
Lower Yosemite Fall, ca. 1946 (9 ½ x 7 ½in.)
Trees and Snow, 1933 (11 x 8 5/8in.)
Branches in Snow, ca. 1932 (6 7/8 x 5 1/8in.)
El Capitan, Sunrise, 1956 (9 ½ x 7 3/8in.)
Tenaya Creek, Spring Rain, 1959 (7 ½ x 9 ½in.)
Water and Foam, ca. 1960 (7 x 6 5/8in.)
Winter Storm, 1940 (7 3/8 x 9in.)
Dogwood Blossoms, 1938 (9 1/4 in. x 6 3/8 in.)
Grass and Pool, ca. 1935 (7 x 9in.)
Nevada Fall, Rainbow, ca. 1947 (9 1/2 x 7 1/8in.)
Rushing Water, Merced River, ca. 1955 (8 x 9 3/4in.)
Bridalveil Fall, ca. 1952 (11 1/5 x 11 5/8in.)
Trees and Cliffs, 1954 (11 1/8 x 8in.)