Inventory number: 7734
Title: Mermaid with Horn
Date: ca. 1926
Medium: Vintage silver print
Image size: 7 in (17.8 cm) high by 5 in (12.7 cm) wide
Provenance: Acquired from the photographer by Anita Brenner, ca. 1926; Estate of Anita Brenner to her daughter Susannah Joel Glusker; Estate of Susannah Joel Glusker; Private collection, Mexico City.
Illustrated: Joel, Susannah. Avant-Garde Art & Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner’s Journals of the Roaring Twenties [2010], University of Texas Press, vol. I, p. 496.
Notes: The mermaid is a widespread, centuries-old popular figure in Mexican folklore. Stories about half-woman and half-aquatic serpent creatures date back to the pre-Columbian period in central Mexico.
Price: $24,000