

64
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal)
- Estimate
- $50,000 - 70,000
$106,250
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print.
1935
9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in. (24.1 x 18.7 cm)
Signed and annotated 'Mexico' in pencil on the mount.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
“In Bravo, the sun is a quiet veil making the shadows like velvet. The shadows are endlessly deep and full, holding more—and more there—and the more. Whereas the sun in a Bravo photo almost always has a sense of humor, one cannot be sure about the shadows.”
-Langston Hughes, Pictures More than Pictures: The Work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Cartier-Bresson
-Langston Hughes, Pictures More than Pictures: The Work of Manuel Álvarez Bravo and Cartier-Bresson
Provenance
Literature