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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Portrait of Juan Rulfo, ca. late 1940s

Description

Maker

Title

Portrait of Juan Rulfo

Year

ca. late 1940s

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

Image/sheet: 25 x 20 cm (9 13/16 x 7 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in pencil, LR (outside image): M. Alvarez Bravo, Mexico

Type

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

79.031

Projects & Publications

Publications

The First America

Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Facing Artists

February 27 - July 31, 2009

Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a contemporary of Mexican Muralists Diego Rivera (whose self-portrait is on the wall behind you) and José Clemente Orozco (whose
portrait by Edward Weston is far left). Juan Rulfo (Mexican, 1917–1986), who hailed from a slightly younger generation, had yet to write his acclaimed novels when this portrait was made. Nonetheless, Bravo seemed to sense his ambition, portraying him leaning forward from the edge of his chair with a look of intense engagement.

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