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Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya, 1960
Details
PETER BEARD (B. 1938)
Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya, 1960
toned gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, titled, dated and inscribed '"A Giraffe is so much a lady 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 Blixen [from Out of Africa]' in ink (recto)
image: 44 x 66 in. (111.7 x 167.6 cm.)
sheet: 48 x 69 1/2 in. (121.9 x 176.5 cm.)
overall: 51 x 73 in. (129.5 x 185.4 cm.)
Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Desert, Kenya, 1960
toned gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, titled, dated and inscribed '"A Giraffe is so much a lady 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 Blixen [from Out of Africa]' in ink (recto)
image: 44 x 66 in. (111.7 x 167.6 cm.)
sheet: 48 x 69 1/2 in. (121.9 x 176.5 cm.)
overall: 51 x 73 in. (129.5 x 185.4 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist’s studio by the present owner.
Literature
Peter Beard, Taschen, Cologne, 2013, p. 631.
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Shlomi Rabi