PETER BEARD, b. 1938 Giraffes in mirage on the Tar

PETER BEARD, b. 1938
Giraffes in mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya, 1960
Toned gelatin silver print with margin painting by Mwandi and Kivoi, printed 1998. 49 ¾ x 98 ¼ in. (126.4 x 249.6 cm). Signed, titled, dated and extensively annotated in ink and paint on the recto.

PROVENANCE Time is Always Now Gallery, New York



LITERATURE Bowermaster, The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa, pp. 34-35

I had time after time watched the progression across the plain of the Giraffe, in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness, as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long stemmed, speckled gigantic flowers slowly advancing. It was, in giant size, the border of a very bold Persian carpet, in the dyes of green, yellow and black-brown. Karen Blixen (from Out of Africa) as annotated on the recto.