PETER BEARD | 'Photo Lesson on the S. S. Caroline, Skorpios, Greece, July 1972' (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)

a unique object, signed, titled, dated, and annotated in red and black inks, partial handprint and drawing in blood and inks in the image, and with collage elements, framed, a Fahey/Klein Gallery label and facsimile of the Peter Beard studio stamp on the reverse, 1972, printed in 2004

Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, 2005 Private collection

Sotheby's New York, 13 April 2010, Sale 8624, Lot 203

cf. Nejma Beard and David Fahey, eds., Peter Beard (Taschen, 2008), unpaginated

While this unique object has not been examined out of the frame, it appears to be in generally excellent condition. As is usual with Peter Beard's process, there are a few faint surface scratches and disruptions, and scattered deposits of paint and ink overall. The inscription by the photographer reads: 'Box 4191, Nairobi, en route to Tsavo, Kenya, for The End of the Game and Longing for Darkness (with intro by J. K. O.), HBJ '75.' The collaged elements comprise one Peter Beard photograph of a live elephant and 4 of elephant carcasses. The facsimile Peter Beard Studio stamp indicates that this print was made in March 2004 and is inventory number 3400.
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