Eland Bull passes watering Elephants
Peter Beard (New York 1938)
Lot-No. 153
Proceeds : 49.500 €
1965/1997. Unique Piece. Silver gelatine print, ink a. gouache, 50 x 61 cm (20 x 24 inches), up. middle sign. Peter Beard as well as inscribed 'Eland Bull passes watering Elephants in the Tiva dry River near Kathamula in Tsavo North February 1965... for the End of the Game Hog Ranch Box 47626 Nbi'. Lo. le. as well as lo. ri. inscribed by African artists 'Hog Ranch Artist by Mwangi 8th Nov. 1997' u. 'Hog Ranch by Kivoi 8th Nov. 1997', matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Prov.: David Fahey collection, Los Angeles. - Certificate of authenticity: Anke Degenhard, Hamburg, 26.10.2009. - The photo was made in 1965 for Beard's chief oeuvre 'The End of the Game', a mile-stone in the documentation of the destruction of wild life in East Africa. Hog Ranch was the artist's mansion in Kenia. - US-American photographer. B. studied 1958-61 at Yale university, among others under the emigrated Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. In 1955 he travelled Africa for the first time. In 1961 he moved to Kenia, where he made friends a. collaborated with Karen Blixen. The endangered species of East Africa are the main subjects of his photos. B. enriches them with collages, drawings a. even blood, often in cooperation with local artists. He also made movies a. worked as an actor. - Mus.: New York (MoMA), Tokyo, Arles a. others. - Lit.: Saur a. others.
Peter Beard: Eland Bull passes watering Elephants
Eland Bull passes watering Elephants
Lot-No. 153
Proceeds : 49.500 €
1965/1997. Unique Piece. Silver gelatine print, ink a. gouache, 50 x 61 cm (20 x 24 inches), up. middle sign. Peter Beard as well as inscribed 'Eland Bull passes watering Elephants in the Tiva dry River near Kathamula in Tsavo North February 1965... for the End of the Game Hog Ranch Box 47626 Nbi'. Lo. le. as well as lo. ri. inscribed by African artists 'Hog Ranch Artist by Mwangi 8th Nov. 1997' u. 'Hog Ranch by Kivoi 8th Nov. 1997', matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Prov.: David Fahey collection, Los Angeles. - Certificate of authenticity: Anke Degenhard, Hamburg, 26.10.2009. - The photo was made in 1965 for Beard's chief oeuvre 'The End of the Game', a mile-stone in the documentation of the destruction of wild life in East Africa. Hog Ranch was the artist's mansion in Kenia. - US-American photographer. B. studied 1958-61 at Yale university, among others under the emigrated Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. In 1955 he travelled Africa for the first time. In 1961 he moved to Kenia, where he made friends a. collaborated with Karen Blixen. The endangered species of East Africa are the main subjects of his photos. B. enriches them with collages, drawings a. even blood, often in cooperation with local artists. He also made movies a. worked as an actor. - Mus.: New York (MoMA), Tokyo, Arles a. others. - Lit.: Saur a. others.