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PETER BEARD (b.1938)
Lot 104

PETER BEARD (b.1938)

Magritte Rammé with World-Record Cow Elephant Tusk for Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, 1976

Closed13 November 2007

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GBP 9,375

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PETER BEARD (b.1938)
Magritte Rammé with World-Record Cow Elephant Tusk for Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, 1976
unique gelatin silver print with blood and ink handwork, printed before 1977
signed, titled, dated and annotated in ink on recto and in margin
11 7/8 x 8in. (30.2 x 20.3cm.)

Specialist note

Magritte Rammé, Beard's girlfriend at the time, poses with a world-record elephant tusk at the artist's house in Montauk, NY. Beard was friendly with the band Fleetwood Mac and made this image for their 1979 album 'Tusk'. A year later, the tusk burned in the Windmill House fire, a disaster that also consumed Beard's studio along with many of his prints and negatives.