Photographs

Peter Beard

'Ele Portfolio'

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

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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, 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, 3 framed

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.)

Peter Beard 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