Live Auction 2780Into Africa: Photographs by Peter Beard
PETER BEARD (B. 1938)
Lot 14

PETER BEARD (B. 1938)

756 Elephants in Stressed-out Formation, Tsavo Park Border, Kenya, 1976

Closed3 October 2013

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PETER BEARD (B. 1938)
756 Elephants in Stressed-out Formation, Tsavo Park Border, Kenya, 1976
unique gelatin silver print with collage, printed later
signed, titled and annotated in ink (in the margin)
image: 16¼ x 22in. (41.3 x 55.9cm.)
sheet: 20 x 24in. (51.2 x 61cm.)

Christie's, New York, April 23, 1996, lot 457

Specialist note

This photograph, donated by the artist, originally formed part of a 1995 traveling exhibition, Pictures for Peace, devoted to human rights. Works in the show, which included photographs by artists such as David Bailey, Paolo Roversi, Sebastião Salgado, Bert Stern, Albert Watson and Bruce Weber, were all eventually sold by Christie's in April 1996. Please also see lot 26 which formed part of this exhibition.