Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, and Gordon Parks Photos to Auction

Christie's will hold its Photographs online sale from September 25 through October 10 featuring items such as rare vintage prints by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, post-war photographs by Diane Arbus, Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, and contemporary highlights by Nan Goldin, Richard Misrach, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Highlights include:

• a group of Ansel Adams photographs including a 20th century mural print of Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958 (estimate: $300,000-$500,000)
• photographs from the collection of Gus and Arlette Kayafas from 19th century to contemporary works by Abelardo Morrell, including Gordon Parks’ American Gothic, Washington D.C. 1942 (estimated: $7,000-$9,000)
• portraits by Richard Avedon such as Francis Bacon, Painter, Paris, France, April 11, 1979, and Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York, 1957 (estimate: $50,000-$70,000)