Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 18,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902-2002)
A portfolio entitled Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo. With 15 (of 15) original photographs, made and printed by Bravo in Mexico. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 6 3/4x9 1/4 inches (17.1x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with Bravo's signature, edition notation 25/100, and notation México, in pencil, on verso. Original grey leatherette box with an inset paper title label also with the edition notation, in pencil; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. Geneva: Acorn Editions Ltd., 1920s-77; printed 1977

Additional Details

Arena y pinitos [Sand and Pines], 1920s Paisaje de Siembras [Growing Landscape], 1972-74 Votos [Votive Offering], 1969 Luz Restirada [Lengthened Light], 1944 Dos Mujeres y la Gran Cortina con Sombras [Two Women, a Large Blind and Shadows], 1977 Acto Primero [First Act], 1975 Caja de Visiones [Box of Visions], 1930s Señor de Papantla [The Man from Papantla], 1934-35 Los Perros durmiendo ladran [Sleeping Dogs Bark], 1966 Dos pares de piernas [Two Pairs of Legs], 1928-29 "...Un Pez que llaman Sierra" ["...A Fish Called Saw"], 1942 Ya Mero [Almost], 1968 Gorrión, Claro [Skylight], 1938-40 Umbral [Threshold], 1947 Retrato de lo Eterno [Woman Combing Her Hair], 1932-33.