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Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga, near Nyeri, Kenya, March 1968
Details
Peter Beard (b. 1938)
Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga, near Nyeri, Kenya, March 1968
signed by the photographer and by artists Kivoir Mathenge and E. Mwangi Kuria, titled ‘Cheetah cubs @ feeding-time in Mweiga nr. Nyeri’, dated ‘1968’ and ‘embellished/ by the Hog Ranch/ art dept./ Decem. 2001 ad’ and variously annotated in ink (recto); signed and dated ‘Peter Beard Sept 2003’ in blue ink, stamped photographer’s copyright credit with title, dated ‘2002’ and inventory number ‘2983’ in black ink and numbered again ‘2983’ in red pencil (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print with gelatin silver print collage, watercolour, tempera and ink
11 x 14in. (28 x 35.7cm.)
Executed in 2003, this work is unique
Orphaned Cheetah Cubs, Mweiga, near Nyeri, Kenya, March 1968
signed by the photographer and by artists Kivoir Mathenge and E. Mwangi Kuria, titled ‘Cheetah cubs @ feeding-time in Mweiga nr. Nyeri’, dated ‘1968’ and ‘embellished/ by the Hog Ranch/ art dept./ Decem. 2001 ad’ and variously annotated in ink (recto); signed and dated ‘Peter Beard Sept 2003’ in blue ink, stamped photographer’s copyright credit with title, dated ‘2002’ and inventory number ‘2983’ in black ink and numbered again ‘2983’ in red pencil (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print with gelatin silver print collage, watercolour, tempera and ink
11 x 14in. (28 x 35.7cm.)
Executed in 2003, this work is unique
Provenance
Donated by the artist.
Literature
N. Beard (ed.), Peter Beard, Cologne 2013, no. 180 (illustrated in colour, p. 627).
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