Lot 142
  • 142

Manuel Álvarez Bravo 1902-2002

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Description

  • Manuel Álvarez Bravo
  • selected images
2 photographs, comprising 'Obrero en Huelga, Asesinado'  from 'Fifteen Photographs' (New York: Double Elephant Press, 1974), mounted, signed by the photographer and numbered 'ac/v' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, matted, framed, 1934, printed later, no. ac/v in an edition of 75; and 'Retrato De Lo Eterno,' signed and annotated 'Mexico' by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, matted, framed, a Jan Kesner Gallery label on the reverse, 1935, printed later (Aperture Masters of Photography, pp. 53 and 59; Kismaric, pp. 86 and 95; Cien Años, Cien Días, pls. 42-3; Masterpieces of Photography, p. 293; Looking at Photographs, p. 133) (2)

Provenance

'Retrato De Lo Eterno,'  Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1991