Manuel Álvarez Bravo - Photographs New York Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | Phillips

Create your first list.

Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

  • Literature

    Museum of Photographic Arts, Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Alvarez Bravo, p. 45, pls. 4, 8, 14, 33
    J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus: Manuel Álvarez Bravo, pls. 3, 7, 24
    Aperture, Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographs and Memories, pp. 2, 31, 55
    Kismaric, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, pp. 2, 87, 95
    Each citation for various prints within the group

  • Catalogue Essay

    The photographs included in this lot are as follows:

    Retrato de lo eterno (Portrait of the Eternal), 1935
    El ensueño (The Day Dream), 1931
    Párabola óptica (Optical Parable), 1921
    Sed pública (Public Thirst), 1933

317

Selected Images

1921-1935
Four gelatin silver prints, printed later.
Each approximately 9 1/2 x 7 7/8 in. (24.1 x 20 cm)
Each signed and annotated 'Mexico' in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $12,700

Contact Specialist

Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs
skrueger@phillips.com


Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Chairwoman, Americas
vhallett@phillips.com

Photographs

New York Auction 4 April 2023