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Ansel Adams Garage Sale Find Worth $200 Million

posted 14 years ago by billyglenn
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html

Paid less than $50. I might be a little upset if I was the former owner.

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/adams/adams.html

I saw someone on Antiques Roadshow who had bought six prints in the 1960's for $200. They were worth around $60,000.

http://www.andrewsmithgallery.com/images/misc/ansel_adams.jpg

This moonrise over the graveyard shot is one of my favorites.

(update)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7913901/Ansel-Adams-di scovery-sparks-row-as-family-say-negatives-are-fakes.html

Now the Adams family is claiming the negatives are fakes.

[–] sc_star17 14 years ago

I was blown away when I read this online the other day - there have been follow up articles stating the undeniable facts and proof that these were Adams' negatives. I wonder how the person selling them at the garage sale got them to begin with!