Photographs
Photographs
Peter Beard
Ele Portfolio
Lot Closed
May 19, 03:48 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Peter Beard
1938 - 2020
'Ele Portfolio'
(New York: Self-Published, 2008, an edition of 15 plus 2 artist's proofs), the complete portfolio of 15 gelatin silver prints, each signed, dated, and editioned '3/15' in ink in the margin, 3 framed, 1960-84, printed in 2008; together with printed title, plate list/colophon, editioned '3' in ink, and introduction by Romain Gary. Atlas folio, half-morocco oblong clamshell box with stamped leather credit and title, beige linen slipcase
images: each approximately 60 by 39.5 cm (23⅝ by 15½ in.) or the reverse
portfolio case: 70.8 by 81 cm (27⅞ by 31⅞ in.)
The photographer's studio, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2011
The plates are as follows:
1. Life Cover, 1967 (framed)
2. Elephant’s Memory, 1972
3. Gardeners of Eden, 1984
4. Aberdare Forest Elephants, 1966
5. Elephants at Night, 1984
6. Snows of Kilamanjaro, 1984 (framed)
7. Tiva Lugga Tsavo North, 1965
8. Elephant & Eland at Kathamula on the Tiva Dry River, 1965
9. Elephant Under Kilamanjaro, 1984 (framed)
10. Uganda Overpopulation with Alistair Graham for Wildlife Services, 1966
11. Reaching Elephant, 1960
12. “Starvo” 965 Elephants, 1976
13. Bull Elephant Demonstration, 1965
14. Rest in Peace, 1972-73
15. Elephant Embryo, 1966