Optical Parable (Parábola óptica)

Photography and Media

1931, printed later

Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Mexican, 1902–2002

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Manuel Alvarez-Bravo
Title: Optical Parable (Parábola óptica)
Place: Mexico (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1931
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: "M. Alvarez Bravo. / México."; unmarked verso
Dimensions: Image/paper: 23.8 × 18.1 cm (9 3/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Mount: 37.9 × 27.5 cm (14 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Exchange National Bank
Reference Number: 1975.315

Art Institute of Chicago, “Recent Acquisitions 1974-1975: The Collection of Photography,” December 6, 1975-February 15, 1976.
University of California at Berkley, University Art Museum, “Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art,” October 3, 1990–January 6, 1991.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, “Mexican Modern Art,” Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, November 14, 1999-February 6, 2000; National Gallery of Canada February 25, 2000-May 21, 2000.
Art Institute of Chicago, “When Collecting Was New: Photographs from the Robert A. Taub Collection,” December 15, 2012–May 12, 2013. (Michal Raz-Russo)

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