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MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO (Mexican, b. 1902) LOS SUEÑOS HAN DE CREERSE (DREAMS OUGHT TO BE BELIEVED)...

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MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO (Mexican, b. 1902) LOS SUEÑOS HAN DE CREERSE (DREAMS OUGHT TO BE BELIEVED)...
MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO (Mexican, b. 1902) LOS SUEÑOS HAN DE CREERSE (DREAMS OUGHT TO BE BELIEVED) signed and inscribed "M. Alvarez Bravo, México" in pencil below image on mount "Los Perros durmiendo ladran" inscribed in pencil on verso of mount vintage gelatin silver print mounted on board 93/8 x 75/8 in. (23.8 x 19.4 cm) mount: 17 1/2 x 14 1/4 in. (44.5 x 36.2 cm) 1966 PROVENANCE Private Collection, MEXICO Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Jane Livingston, M. ALVAREZ BRAVO, Boston, 1978, pl. 39 (illustrated; titled "Justo Sueño" [Well-earned sleep]) Elena Poniatowska, MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO EL ARTISTA SU OBRA SUS TIEMPOS, Mexico City, 1991, p. 52 (illustrated) Arthur Ollman, REVELACIONES: THE ART OF MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO, Albuquerque, 1992, p. 31, fig. 6 (illustrated) Carlos Monsiváis et al, MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO: 100 YEARS, 100 DAYS, MADRID, 2001, pl. 83 (illustrated) Alvarez Bravo often portrays sleeping figures. The implication of dreaming, and sometimes death, is always present in such images, and is usually suggested by the titles or captions he applies to the pictures. At least three different titles have been attached to this image. One of the titles is "Justo Sueño" or "well-earned sleep." Another, inscribed on the back of the print, is "Los perros durmiendo ladran," meaning "sleeping dogs bark." As in so many of Alvarez Bravo's photographs, we are provided with guidelines to the meaning of the photographs but they remain ambiguous, even mysterious.
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