Elephants on the Tiva Lugga
Auction Closed
November 21, 10:28 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Peter Beard
1938 - 2020
Elephants on the Tiva Lugga
signed, titled, dated and annotated A Pleistocine Moment on the Tiva Lugga nr. Kathamula, Tsavo North, February 1965, for The End of the Game / Last Word from Paradise / Peter Beard, Box 14 Voi, Kenya in ink (on the image)
gelatin silver print, collaged with photographs, newspaper fragments, magazine clippings, and matchbooks and profusely illustrated with paint and colored inks by E. Mwangi Kuria from the Hog Ranch Art Department
50 by 79¾ in.
127 by 201.7 cm.
Executed in 1965, printed and assembled later, this work is unique.
Acquired directly from the artist's studio in 2005 by the present owner
Nejma Beard and David Fahey, eds., Peter Beard, vols. I and II, Cologne, 2008, n.p. and p. 125 (variant illustrated)
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