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MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (1902–2002)
Diez Desnudos (Ten Nudes), 1981
Geneva: Acorn Editions Limited, 1981. Ten platinum-palladium prints, each signed and annotated 'Mexico' in pencil (margin); each image 938 x 718 in. (23.8 x 18.1 cm.) and slightly smaller (or the reverse), each sheet 12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm.) together with title page, plate list and poem by Heinrich Heine; encased in original red portfolio case.
Provenance
Christie's, Los Angeles, December 10, 1998, lot 38;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
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The plates are as follows:
1.Título: Sin Título (Title: Without Title), 1978
2. Fruta Prohibida (Forbidden Fruit), 1977
3. La del Pirú (She of the Pirú Tree), 1978
4. Salomè, 1980
5. Xipetotec, 1979
6. La Desvendada (The Unbandaging), 1938
7. Siesta en la Hierba (Siesta in the Grass), 1979
8. que cae (that falls), 1980
9. Espejo Negro (Black Mirror), 1936
10. Diosa, Historia (Goddess, History), 1979

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