Lot 94
  • 94

Peter Beard

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Peter Beard
  • 'Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya June for the End of the Game', 1960
  • Silver print.
Silver print, printed later. Signed, titled, dated, illustrated and inscribed in black ink. With gallery stamp on back of frame. Mounted and framed. 

Provenance

The Time is Always Now, New York

Literature

Peter Beard, The End of the Game: Last Word from Paradise, San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1988, ill. pp. 50-51;
Jon Bowermaster, The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa, Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1993, ill. pp. 34 -35;
Nejma Beard and David Fahey, eds., Peter Beard, Vol. I, Köln, Taschen, 2008, ill. p. 237.

Condition

This print is in excellent condition.
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