Transcendence: Photography and the Sublime
195
Ansel Adams
Fresh Snow, Yosemite Valley, California
- Estimate
- $10,000 - 15,000
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print from Portfolio VI, printed 1974.
circa 1947
15 1/2 x 19 in. (39.4 x 48.3 cm)
Signed, numbered 'VI-9' and 79/110 in pencil on the mount; 'Portfolio VI' stamp on the reverse of the mount.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
“The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. After eighty years, I scan a long perspective. I think of a mantra of Gaelic origin given me fifty years ago by Ella Young. It echoed everything I believe:
I know that I am one with beauty
And that my comrades are one.
Let our souls be mountains,
Let our spirits be stars
Let our hearts be worlds
–Ansel Adams, An Autobiography
I know that I am one with beauty
And that my comrades are one.
Let our souls be mountains,
Let our spirits be stars
Let our hearts be worlds
–Ansel Adams, An Autobiography
Provenance
Literature