Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 90

Unsold
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 45,000
MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902-2002)
Portfolio entitled Fifteen Photographs. Edited by Lee Friedlander. Introductory essay by André Breton. Complete with numerous highlights from Bravo's extraordinary career. Silver prints, the images measuring 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, one 11 1/4x14 1/4 inches (28.6x36.2 cm.), the mounts 14 3/4x19 3/4 inches (37.5x50.2 cm.), each with Bravo's signature and the edition notation 21/75, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio-sized silver-stamped black leather clamshell box with silver pastedowns; with the colophon; contents loose as issued. New York: The Double Elephant Press, 1929-72; printed 1974

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Parabola Optica, 1931 El Sistema Nervioso del Gran Simpatico, 1929 La Buena Fama Durmiendo, 1938 El Eclipse, 1933 El Ensueño, 1931 Un Poco Alegre y Graciosa, 1942 Sed Publica, 1934 La Quema, 1957 La de las Bellas Artes, 1931 Trampa Puesta, 1934 Los Agachados, 1934 Barda de Panteon, 1967 Obrero en Huelga, Asesinado, 1934 Tumba Reciente, 1933 Paisaje Inventado, 1972.