May 27, 2021 - Sale 2570

Sale 2570 - Lot 28

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
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 68/75, 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

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

Additional Details

From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.