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Peter Beard (b. 1938)
Lot 259

Peter Beard (b. 1938)

Waterbuck Family on the Uaso Nyiro, 1968

Closed6 October 2015

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USD 68,750

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Peter Beard (b. 1938)
Waterbuck Family on the Uaso Nyiro, 1968
unique gelatin silver print with ink handwork, blood and feathers, printed later
signed, extensively inscribed by Peter Beard, signed, dated and drawings by Kivoi Mathenge in ink (on the recto)
image/sheet: 62 x 102in. (157.5 x 259cm.)

With The Time is Always Now Gallery, New York;
With Camera Work Gallery, Berlin

Specialist note

'I was up at a great height, upon the roof of the world, a small figure in the tremendous retort of earth and air, yet one with it--I did not know that I was at the height and upon the roof of my own life.'
Karen Blixen