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Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Diez Desnudos (Ten Nudes)

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000
$15,240
Lot Details
Geneva: Acorn Editions Limited, 1981. Ten platinum-palladium prints.
1938-1980
Varying sizes from 6 x 8 3/4 in. (15.2 x 22.2 cm) to 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 in. (23.8 x 18.7 cm) or the reverse
Each signed and annotated 'Mexico' in pencil in the margin. Calligraphic title, plate list, and poem by Heinrich Heine. Enclosed in a red clothbound clamshell case with latches.
Catalogue Essay
The photographs included in this lot are as follows:

Título: Sin Título (Title: Without Title), 1978
Fruta Prohibida (Forbidden Fruit), 1977
La del Pirú (She of the Pirú Tree), 1978
Salomè, 1980
Xipetotec, 1979
La Desvendada (The Unbandaging), 1938
Siesta en la Hierba (Siesta in the Grass), 1979
quecae (that falls), 1980
Espejo Negro (Black Mirror), 1936
Diosa, Historia (Goddess, History), 1979

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

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