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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
Details
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
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
Provenance
The Time is Always Now Gallery, New York
Literature
Beard, The End of the Game, Paul Hamlyn, 1965, pp. 16-17;
Bowermaster, The Adventures and MisAdventures of Peter Beard in Africa, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Company, 1993, pp. 34-35;
Beard, Beyond the End of the World, Universe, 1998, unpaginated.
Bowermaster, The Adventures and MisAdventures of Peter Beard in Africa, Bulfinch/Little, Brown and Company, 1993, pp. 34-35;
Beard, Beyond the End of the World, Universe, 1998, unpaginated.