[ratpack] FYI
- From: Michael Wells <mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:17:17 -0600
Ansel Adams, Lucas Samaras photographs set records at Polaroid collection
auction
Associated Press
06/22/10 8:42 AM PDT
NEW YORK — A sale of photographs by Ansel Adams and Lucas Samaras has set
records at a New York City auction for the artists.
The records came Monday on the first of a two-day Sotheby's auction from the
Polaroid corporate collection. Some 800 more photographs were being offered
on Tuesday.
Monday's sale total was $7.1 million, exceeding the top $4.5 million
estimate.
Adams' "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park" sold for $722,500.
The auctioneer said that shattered his 2006 auction record of $609,600 for
"Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico," from 1941.
A Samaras work, "Ultra-Large (Hands)," went for $194,500. The previous
record for the artist was $132,000 for "Transformation: Eyeglasses" set in
1989.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner:
http://www.sfexaminer.com/economy/96878689.html#ixzz0rbDbw6jV
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MCWells Photography
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