Lot 91
  • 91

Peter Beard

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Peter Beard
  • '756 Elephants in Stressed-out Formation, Tsavo Park, Kenya', 1976
  • Silver print
Silver print, printed later. Signed, titled, dated, annotated and with a quote by William Faulkner in black ink in the lower and upper margins. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

 The Time is Always Now, New York

Literature

Peter Beard, The End of the Game, New York, Doubleday/Dolphin, 1977, n.p. (front endpaper, detail);
Jon Bowermaster, The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa, Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1993, ill. pp. 38-39.

Condition

This silver print is in very good condition. With light undulations near the left and right edges, all away from the image.
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Catalogue Note

Quote in the upper margin by William Faulkner: "The ruined wood we used to know won't cry for retribution, the men who have destroyed it will accomplish its revenge." in Go down Moses and other Stories.