Contemporary Photographs
Contemporary Photographs
Peter Beard
'Cheetah Orphans in Mweiga near Nyeri'
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October 5, 07:05 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Peter Beard
1938-2020
'Cheetah Orphans in Mweiga near Nyeri'
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'for The End of the Game / Last Word from Paradise / Box 47616 Nairobi' in blue ink on the image, framed, 1968, printed in the 1990s; accompanied by a The Time is Always Now label (2)
image: 15 ¼ by 22 ¼ in. (38.7 by 56.5 cm.)
frame: 23 ¼ by 30 ¼ in. (59.1 by 76.8 cm.)
Gift from Peter Tunney, owner of The Time is Always Now gallery, New York, early 1990s
By descent to the present owner
cf. Peter Beard and Owen Edwards, Beyond the End of the World: Photographs, diaries, notes, sketches, and collages; phantasmagoria, metamorphoses, natural horrors, and prehistoric memories: Last voices of a lost Africa. Exhibition curated by Peter T. Tunney (New York, 1998), cover
cf. Peter Beard and Owen Edwards, Peter Beard (Köln, 2008), Vol. I, pls. 176 and 261; and Vol. II, pp. 125 and 133