Live Auction 2113Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering
PETER BEARD (B. 1938)
Lot 45 A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garbs, draperies of morning mist and mirage.
KAREN BLIKSEN

PETER BEARD (B. 1938)

Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya, June 1960

Closed10 April 2008

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PETER BEARD (B. 1938)
Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya, June 1960
gelatin silver print with handwork and collage
signed, titled, dated, Blixen quotation and annotated extensively in ink (on the recto)
19 5/8 x 30in. (50 x 76cm.); artist's frame

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