Apr 17, 2014 - Sale 2345

Sale 2345 - Lot 207

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BRAVO, MANUEL ALVAREZ (1902-2002)
"El Soñador" [The Dreamer]. Silver print, 7 1/8x9 1/4 inches (18.1x23.5 cm.), with Bravo's signature and "México," in pencil, on verso. 1931; printed circa 1980
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Though not an official member of the Surrealist Movement, Bravo was a compatriot of Breton and the Surrealists in Mexico City. On this photograph, Bravo mused: "There at number 20 Calle de Guatemala, I saw many things that marked me forever. I walked a lot through the adjoining streets; I especially liked to watch the customs porters in Santiago Tlatelolco station, who after work would fall asleep exhausted on the sidewalk. I felt great compassion for them. … I am happy to have lived in those streets. There everything was food for my camera, everything had an inherent social content; in life everything has social content."