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Lot 127
  • 127

Peter Beard b. 1938

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Peter Beard
  • 'TSAVO 1971-72 FOR THE END OF THE GAME, LAST WORD FROM PARADISE'
a unique object, large-format color Polaroid print, signed, titled, dated, inscribed 'Box 47616, Nairobi, Kenya,' copiously annotated with quotations from John Milton's Paradise Lost and T. S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday, the photographer's partial handprint in ink in the margin, and with blood and a single feather applied to the image, matted, in a frame designed to the photographer's specifications, 1971-72, printed circa 1997

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from The Time is Always Now Gallery, New York, 1997

Literature

Peter Beard, The End of the Game, The Last Word from Paradise (San Francisco, 1998), unpaginated