Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 180

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BRAVO, MANUEL ÁLVAREZ (1902-2002)
"Frida Kahlo con Globo." Silver print, 9 3/8x7 1/8 inches (24x18.1 cm.), with Bravo's signature and the notation México, in pencil, and a caption in an unknown hand, on verso. 1931; printed late 1980s
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Additional Details

Acquired directly from the artist in the late 1990s; to the present owner.

After reading Hayden Herrera's biography of Kahlo (which was published in 1983), the dealer representing Bravo became aware of this negative and encouraged him to make prints of it.

Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, p. 133.