May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 168

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902-2002)
Espejo Negro [Black Mirror]. 1947; printed 1990s.
Platinum print, the image measuring 9⅜x7½ inches (23.8x18.7 cm.), the sheet 11⅞x10 inches (30.2x25.4 cm.), with Bravo's signature and the notation "México" in pencil on recto.

Provenance
Collection of the Herb Ritts Foundation; Swann Galleries, sale 2361, lot 144, May 21, 2015; to the Present Owner
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Additional Details

Prior report, check:
Manuel Alvarez Bravo's stunning platinum print titled "Espejo Negro [Black Mirror]" is in excellent condition, with no flaws to the image area.

There are a couple spots of very faint soiling from handling in the far margins, and each margin shows a short, linear pencil line (likely related to prior matting). These do not at all affect the image area. Please note that the image is printed slightly crooked on the sheet.

With Bravo's signature and México, in pencil, on recto, in the lower right margin.

From the Collection of the Herb Ritts Foundation.

The image is reproduced in Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photopoetry, 139.