Live Auction 2780Into Africa: Photographs by Peter Beard
PETER BEARD (B. 1938)
Lot 26

PETER BEARD (B. 1938)

Reflections on Natural History, Moite Bay, 1965

Closed3 October 2013

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PETER BEARD (B. 1938)
Reflections on Natural History, Moite Bay, 1965
unique gelatin silver print with colored ink handwork, printed later
signed, titled, dated and extensively annotated in ink (on the recto) and (in the margin)
image: 20 x 13 3/8in. (50.7 x 34cm.)
sheet: 24 x 20in. (61 x 50.7cm.)

Christie's, New York, April 23, 1996, lot 455

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 14 which also formed part of this exhibition.