Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Monolith, Face of Half Dome (from 'Portfolio Three: Yosemite Valley'), 1927 Gelatin silver print, printed 1960; mounted, signed in ink on the mount, the 'Portfolio Three (Yosemite Valley)' stamp, with [plate] number '1' and edition '110' in red ink, on the reverse, framed; this work is no. 110 from an edition of 208. 11 x 8 1/8 in. (27.9 x 20.6 cm.) mount 18 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (46 x 35.9 cm.) Footnotes: Provenance Private Collection, New Jersey By bequest to the present owner in 2025 Literature Liliane de Cock Morgan, ed., Ansel Adams (Hastings-on-Hudson, 1972), pl. 8 John Szarkowski, The Portfolios of Ansel Adams (Boston, 1977), p. 41 Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: Yosemite and the Range of Light (Boston, 1979), pl. 54 Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs (Boston, 1983), p. 2 John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2001), figure 10 Karen E. Haas and Rebecca A. Senf, Ansel Adams in the Lane Collection (Boston, 2005), pl. 5 Andrea Gray Stillman, ed., Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs (Boston, 2007), p. 35 Rebecca Senf, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams (New Haven, 2020), fig. 2.19 Lot to be sold without reserve. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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