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Lot 115

Manuel Alvarez Bravo
(1902-2002)
Retrato de lo Eterno

11 – 21 September 2023, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902-2002)

Retrato de lo Eterno, 1935
Gelatin silver print, printed later; signed 'M. Alvarez Bravo, Mexico' and titled in pencil on the verso; matted.
9 3/8 x 7 7/16 in. (23.9 x 18.9 cm)
sheet 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm)

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Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a self-taught artist who made exquisite and often surreal photographs over the course of a seventy-year career. His portrait of artist, poet, singer, and songwriter Isabel Villaseñor reveals a moment of psychological complexity as she gazes into a small mirror while sunlight beams onto her face and hair creating a dramatic study of light and dark.

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