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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

1902 - 2002

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gelatin silver print, mounted to Crescent illustration board, signed and annotated 'Mexico' in pencil on the mount, framed

image: 9½ by 7⅝ in. (24.1 by 19.4 cm.)

frame: 23⅞ by 17¼ in. (60.5 by 44 cm.)

Executed in 1939.

Kicken Berlin

Acquired from the above in 2004 by the present owner

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photographs (Mexico City: Programa Cultural de la XIX Olimpiada, 1968), no. 47 

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Pasadena Art Museum, 1971), no. 3

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: 400 Fotografias (Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1972), no. 285

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: 303 Photographies, 1920-1986 (Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1986), no. 81

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Aperture Masters of Photography (New York, 1987), pp. 68-9 

Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1998), p. 98

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Cien Años, Cien Días (Madrid, 2001), no. 50

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry (San Francisco, 2008), p. 93

Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Paris, 2012), no. 16

Manual Álvarez Bravo (Paris, Jeu de Paume and Madrid, Fundación MAPFRE, 2012), no. 78