Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002), Margarita from Bonampak

Gelatin silver print, negative 1949, with pencil inscription to verso, matted and framed below glass.

Image sight 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 14 1/4 x 12 in.

Manuel Álvarez Bravo is one of the most important Latin American photographers of the twentieth century. His work focuses on Mexican figures and landscapes, and he was also influenced by European contemporaries including Edward Weston and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Major museum collections that hold his work include the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Edge tear upper center from from matting; some creases and edge nicks; minor sheet waviness.