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Peter Beard

New York 1938 – 2020 Montauk, New York

„Kenya Elephant“. 1960

Gelatin silver print, before 1990. 57 x 38 cm (60,5 x 50 cm) (22 ½ x 15 in. (23 ⅞ x 19 ⅝ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Peter Beard. „Kenya Elephant“. 1960.

Estimate:

EUR 30,000

 

- 40,000

USD 38,900

 

- 51,800

Sold for:

37,820 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 199-206

Photography, Wednesday, 28.11.2012

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Gelatin silver print, before 1990. 57 x 38 cm (60,5 x 50 cm) (22 ½ x 15 in. (23 ⅞ x 19 ⅝ in.)). In the image upper right signed, dated: "June 1960" and titled in black ink as well as Beard's address information in Nairobi, Kenya. In the image upper left annotated in black ink. Worked with animal blood in the margins as well as drawn patterns with animal blood in the upper left part of the image. Piece of collage in the lower left. In unopened gallery frame, on back of frame copyright stamp: "1990 © Peter Beard c/o The Time is Always Now Inc. All rights reserved. Use of and/or reproduction of this image without the expressed written permission of Peter Beard or The Time is Always Now Inc. Is unlawful." as well as two further copyrightstamps and stamp: "original works by Peter H. Beard are available exclusively through The Time is Always Now, etc.". Stamp: "Peter Beard / Stress & Density / Camera Work Berlin, Germany" and label of the Gallery "The Time is Always Now". Mounted to mat. Size of frame: 78,5 x 68,5 cm. Framed

In 1998 the exhibition „Stress & Density“ with works of Peter Beard has been shown at Camera Work, Berlin, in collaboration with the Gallery „The Time is Always Now“.

Formerly Gallery „The Time is Always Now“, New York

Peter Beard, The End of the Game, San Francisco 1988, p.11 (variation)
Peter Beard, Photo Poche no. 67, ed. by Centre National de la Photographie, Paris 1997, ill. 5, not paginated (print without drawings)

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