Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
The Collection of Jay I. Kislak: Sold to Benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
'Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal)'
Lot Closed
October 5, 03:18 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1902 - 2002
'Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal)'
gelatin silver print, signed and titled in ink on the reverse, framed, 1935
image: 4 ⅞ by 3 ⅝ in. (12.4 by 9.2 cm.)
frame: 18 ¾ by 14 ¾ in. (47.6 by 37.5 cm.)
By descent through family
Fine Arts of Ancient Lands, Inc., New York, 1989
Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1997), p. 95
Frederick Kaufman, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories (Aperture, 1997), p. 31
A. D. Coleman, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Masters of Photography (Aperture, 1997), p. 53
Weston Naef, ed., In Focus: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, 2001), p. 51
Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Cien Años, Cien Días (Madrid, 2001), pl. 42
Colette Álvarez Urbajtel, John Banville, Jean-Claude Lemagny, and Carlos Fuentes, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry (San Francisco, 2008), p. 111