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Peter Beard

Elephants on the Tiva Lugga

Auction Closed

November 21, 10:28 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

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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)