Lot #411: ANSEL ADAMS - Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico - Original photogravure

 

Artist: Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984).
Title: "Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico".
Medium: Original photogravure.
Date: Composed 1941. Printed later.
Dimensions: Image size: 10 1/16 x 11 1/16 in. (256 x 281 mm).
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Quantity printed unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Comment(s): This work is one of Adams’s most famous images as well as his highest priced. It was taken on October 31, 1941. A December 2020 sale at Sotheby’s of an impression of this print brought $685,500. Image copyright © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. [30372-2-1200]