Arts & Galleries
Adams' 'Moonrise' sells for $360,000
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02:35 PM PST on Tuesday, December 8, 2009
NEW YORK - An early print of an iconic Ansel Adams photograph sold Tuesday for $360,000 at a Swann Auction Galleries sale in New York City.
The print is signed and inscribed to Valentino Sarra, a friend of Adams' and a poster designer for the old Works Progress Administration. It shows a nighttime moon over a cloud-fringed mountain range with a graveyard in the foreground.
It was made in a range of subtle grays, and the auction house says it's one of only 10 believed to carry such a delicate tonal quality.
Three are in museum collections.
Adams experimented with printing, often producing the same image in lighter and darker tones.
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