Ansel Adams
Antelope House Ruin, Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona
Found at
Sothebys,
New York
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Photographs, Lot 22
3. Feb - 17. Feb 2022
A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Photographs, Lot 22
3. Feb - 17. Feb 2022
Estimate: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Price realised: 27.720 USD
Price realised: 27.720 USD
Description
Ansel Adams
1902 - 1984
Antelope House Ruin, Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona
plate 2 from Portfolio VI (New York: Parasol Press, Ltd., 1974), gelatin silver print, mounted, signed and with plate number 'VI-2' and edition '1/110' in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery label on the reverse, 1942, printed in 1974
image: 19½ by 14⅝in. (49.5 by 37.1 cm.)
frame: 35⅜ by 31⅜ in. (89.9 by 79.7 cm.)
Private collection, New Mexico, 2005 | Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, 2006
1902 - 1984
Antelope House Ruin, Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona
plate 2 from Portfolio VI (New York: Parasol Press, Ltd., 1974), gelatin silver print, mounted, signed and with plate number 'VI-2' and edition '1/110' in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp on the reverse, framed, an Andrew Smith Gallery label on the reverse, 1942, printed in 1974
image: 19½ by 14⅝in. (49.5 by 37.1 cm.)
frame: 35⅜ by 31⅜ in. (89.9 by 79.7 cm.)
Private collection, New Mexico, 2005 | Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, 2006
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
When the work Antelope House Ruin, Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona by Ansel Adams was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in February last year, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 7,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at USD 27,720.00 (€ 24,697.08). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Ansel Adams achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming in December 2020 with an auction result of USD 988,000.00 (€ 807,849.55).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Antelope House Ruin, Canyon De Chelly National Monument, Arizona von Ansel Adams im Februar letzten Jahres bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 7.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 27.720,00 (€ 24.697,08) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Ansel Adams erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming im Dezember 2020 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 988.000,00 (€ 807.849,55).
Ansel Adams - Auction history
