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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Retrato de lo Eterno [Portrait of the Eternal]

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Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Bid

55,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

1902 - 2002

Retrato de lo eterno [Portrait of the Eternal]


gelatin silver print, on a large buff mount, signed and annotated 'Mexico' in pencil on the mount, framed, a Pace/MacGill Gallery label on the reverse

image: 9½ by 7⅜ in. (24.1 by 18.7 cm.)

frame: 21½ by 19 in. (54.6 by 48.2 cm.)

Executed in 1935.

The photographer to artist Gunther Gerzso, Mexico City

By descent through family

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2016 by the present owner

Wolfgang Paalen, ed., DYN, vol. 1, no. 2, July-August 1942, p. 18

El Hijo Pródigo, vol. IX, no. 29, 15 August 1946, pl. 2, p. 89

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (New York, 1980), p. 8

Octavio Paz and A. Muñoz, Instante y Revelación (Mexico, 1982), unpaginated

Salas Pablo Ruíz Picasso, Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección General de Bellas Artes y Archivos, 1985), pl. 99

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: 303 Photographies, 1920-1986 (Paris: Musée de Arte Moderne, 1986), pl. 61

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Aperture Masters of Photography (New York, 1987), p. 53

L'oeil du Minotaure: Ubac, Brassaï, Alvarez Bravo, Bellmer, Man Ray (Genève: Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, 1987), unpaginated

Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Albuquerque, 1992), cover and pl. 4

Tom E. Hinson, Catalogue of Photography: The Cleveland Museum of Art (The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996), p. 85

Frederick Kaufman, "Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories," Aperture, Vol. 147, Spring 1997, p. 31

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

In Focus: Manuel Alvarez Bravo - Photographs from The J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001), pl. 24, p. 50

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Cien Años, Cien Días (Madrid, 2001), no. 42

Amanda Hopkinson, Manuel Alvarez Bravo (55) (London, 2002), p. 57

Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photopoetry (San Francisco, 2008), p. 111

Manuel Álvarez Bravo: VINTAGE (New York: Throckmorton Fine Art, 2014), p. 32

Monica Bravo, Greater American Camera: Making Modernism in Mexico (New Haven, 2021), p. 201, fig.134