Iconic Ansel Adams image sells for nearly $1M at Sotheby’s auction, total sales of $6.4M

Ansel Adams, The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming ‘ A Grand Vision: The David H. Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams Masterworks ‘ completed auctioned at Sotheby’s New York on December 14. The collection comprised 123 individual lots, 94% of which were successfully sold to buyers both in person at Sotheby’s New York and online. A mural-sized print, ‘The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming’, sold for a record-high for an Ansel Adams print, closing at $988,000 USD. Ansel Adams photographed the record-setting print in 1942. The image was commissioned by the Department of the Interior. The mural-sized print of Jackson Hole is one of fewer than 10 thought to exist. David H. Arrington acquired it directly from a descendant of Ansel Adams. Ansel Adams, The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming – Lot […]

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