Peter Beard

Peter Beard

1938 - 2020

Selected Images (2 photographs)

2 unique objects, gelatin silver prints, comprising Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya and Mbuno with Ostrich, Barsaloi Lugga, and the former signed, dated '1990' and annotated 'Dover Plains!' in ink in the margin and annotated with a passage from Karen Blixen on the image in ink, the latter signed and dated by Mbuno and annotated 'Barsaloi Lugga' and 'Hog Ranch Sept. 1 '87 tues' and extensively illustrated by Mbuno with colored inks in the margin

images to: 16¾ by 11¼ in. (42.5 by 28.6 cm.)

Executed in 1960, printed later.

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