Manuel Álvarez Bravo Follow Los Agachados (The crouched ones) 1934 Gelatin silver print. 3 x 3 1/4 in. (7.6 x 8.3 cm) Credited in an unidentified hand in ink on the verso.
Provenance Estate of Jacob Bean, former Curator of Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1993, lot 274 Literature Aperture, Aperture Masters of Photography: Manuel Álvarez Bravo , p. 15 J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus: Manuel Álvarez Bravo , pl. 18 Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo , p. 78 Museum of Photographic Arts, Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Álvarez Bravo , pl. 11 Parker, Manuel Álvarez Bravo , p. 30 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, M Álvarez Bravo , pl. 42 Turner Publications, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: 100 Years, 100 Days , pl. 33 Urbajtel, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry , p. 119 Steidl, Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans Documentary and Anti-Graphic , p. 79 Catalogue Essay This photograph comes originally from the collection of Jacob Bean, Curator of Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum from 1960 to the early 1990s. In the 1940s, Bean worked for pioneering gallerist Julien Levy who exhibited Bravo’s photographs in 1935 in the now-famous Documentary and Anti-Graphic exhibition. It is likely that Bean acquired this print from Levy. Read More
Manuel Álvarez Bravo Follow Los Agachados (The crouched ones) 1934 Gelatin silver print. 3 x 3 1/4 in. (7.6 x 8.3 cm) Credited in an unidentified hand in ink on the verso.
Provenance Estate of Jacob Bean, former Curator of Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sotheby's, New York, 7 October 1993, lot 274 Literature Aperture, Aperture Masters of Photography: Manuel Álvarez Bravo , p. 15 J. Paul Getty Museum, In Focus: Manuel Álvarez Bravo , pl. 18 Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo , p. 78 Museum of Photographic Arts, Revelaciones: The Art of Manuel Álvarez Bravo , pl. 11 Parker, Manuel Álvarez Bravo , p. 30 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, M Álvarez Bravo , pl. 42 Turner Publications, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: 100 Years, 100 Days , pl. 33 Urbajtel, Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry , p. 119 Steidl, Photographs by Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans Documentary and Anti-Graphic , p. 79 Catalogue Essay This photograph comes originally from the collection of Jacob Bean, Curator of Drawings at The Metropolitan Museum from 1960 to the early 1990s. In the 1940s, Bean worked for pioneering gallerist Julien Levy who exhibited Bravo’s photographs in 1935 in the now-famous Documentary and Anti-Graphic exhibition. It is likely that Bean acquired this print from Levy. Read More
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