Peter Beard

a unique mural-sized work incorporating a large print of a 1909 photograph of a rhino by Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore and photographs of Kenyan sculptor Terry Mathews being gored by a rhino, chromogenic prints, signed and annotated 'from The End of the Game, Last Word from Paradise' in white ink and extensively annotated in red ink, with  illustrations in black ink, blood, and collage elements including pieces of newspaper and a New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center visitor's pass, framed, circa 1994 (The End of the Game, p. 107)

Acquired by the present owner in 1994

This work has not been removed from its frame. It appears to be in generally excellent condition.
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The quotation on this photograph reads,

'Sometimes on a Safari, or on the farm, in a moment of extreme tension, I have met the eyes of my native companions, and have felt that we were at a great distance from one another, and that they were wondering at my apprehension of our risk--It made me reflect that perhaps they were, in life itself, within their own element, such as we can never be, like fishes in deep water which for the life of them cannot understand our fear of drowning.  This assurance, this art of swimming they had, I thought, because they had preserved a knowledge that was lost to us by our first parents; Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one . . . Karen Blixen (from Out of Africa).'