Photographs
Photographs
Peter Beard
'Karen Blixen @ Rungstedlund, Dec. 3, '61'
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April 13, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
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Peter Beard
1938 - 2020
'Karen Blixen @ Rungstedlund, Dec. 3, '61'
a unique object, gelatin silver print with blood in the margins, signed, dated, and annotated '"What business had I, ever, to set my heart on Africa?"' in black ink and blood, framed, a The Time Is Always Now label and the artist's copyright/reproduction rights stamp on the reverse, 1961, printed later
image: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)
framed: 14 ½ by 12 ½ in. (36.8 by 31.8 cm.)
The Time Is Always Now , New York, circa 1990
Peter Beard, The End of the Game (San Francisco, 1988), p. 60
Peter Beard: Beyond the End of the World (New York, 1998), unpaginated (variant)
Peter Beard (London, 2008), pl. 63 (variant)
Peter Beard, vol. 1 (Cologne, 2008), unpaginated (variant)