Fayel Tall at Loingalami, Lake Rudolph
Peter Beard (New York 1938)
Lot-No. 540
Proceeds : 40.900 €
Unique Piece. Silver gelatine print, ink, 49 x 33,5 cm, lo. le. monogrammed a. dat. P. B. January 1987 as well as titled, lo. ri. autographed poem of the artist to the sitter's beauty, sign. a. inscribed Peter Beard Box 4191 Nairobi, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Prov.: collection Gert Elfering; Anke Degenhard, Hamburg, 2009. - 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: Fayel Tall at Loingalami, Lake Rudolph
Fayel Tall at Loingalami, Lake Rudolph
Lot-No. 540
Proceeds : 40.900 €
Unique Piece. Silver gelatine print, ink, 49 x 33,5 cm, lo. le. monogrammed a. dat. P. B. January 1987 as well as titled, lo. ri. autographed poem of the artist to the sitter's beauty, sign. a. inscribed Peter Beard Box 4191 Nairobi, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Prov.: collection Gert Elfering; Anke Degenhard, Hamburg, 2009. - 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.