Manuel Álvarez Bravo

mounted to Crescent Quality illustration board, signed and annotated in pencil on the mount, early 1950s; accompanied by a frame backing with 3 exhibition labels

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, February - May 1997; and traveling thereafter to Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, A.C., Mexico, June - September 1997; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, A.C., Mexico, February - May 1998

Susan Kismaric, Manuel Alvarez Bravo (The Museum of Modern Art, 1997), p. 193 (this print)

This early, somewhat cool-toned print, is in generally very good condition. This print may have been varnished, as faint swirling streaks are visible in raking light. Also visible in raking light are the following: a 4-inch vertical scratch that does not appear to break the emulsion in the lower left quadrant; and various small, insignificant surface scratches overall. The print is on an off-white, almost grey, slick mount, with green paper backing. The mount corners are bumped and there is light rubbing and soiling along the edges. There are abrasions to the top paper-ply in the upper corners and along the upper mount edge. On the reverse of the mount, 'MBI/015' is in an unidentified hand in pencil.
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