Oct 22, 2020 - Sale 2548

Sale 2548 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO.
Fotografías.
The extremely scarce signed deluxe edition of this title, which includes three vintage photographs, El ensueño [The Daydream], Luz restirada [Stretched Light], and Dia de todos Muertos [Day of the Dead]. Silver prints, the images measuring 6 3/4x4 1/2 inches (17.1x11.4 cm.), tipped to heavy card stock in a section titled "Copias Originales," with the titles printed opposite each print. The volume also with 26 reproductions of Bravo's Surrealist photographs and a halftone portrait of Bravo by Doris Alvarez Heyde. 4to, printed wrappers, lightly soiled and discolored, contents loose and partially detached; with Bravo's signature and edition notation 97, in ink, on the first page of the special section. DELUXE EDITION, ONE OF 115 NUMBERED COPIES ISSUED WITH 3 PHOTOGRAPHS, THIS COPY SIGNED TWICE AND INSCRIBED BY BRAVO.
Mexico: Sociedad de Art Moderno, 1945

Additional Details

This copy was signed and inscribed by Bravo to José Rodríguez Granada, "compañero y amigo mio." Bravo's signature also appears on the introductory page "Copias Originales," which precedes the vintage prints. Granada was a prolific Mexican art director.