Single Cheetah
Peter Beard (New York 1938)
Lot-No. 284
Proceeds : 68.100 €
1960/2007. Unique Piece. Silver gelatine print, collage, ink a. blood, 101 x 126,5 cm (40 x 50 inches), up. ri. sign. Peter Beard as well as inscribed 'Box 4191 Nbi'. Up. middle citation from church father Tertullian. With many smaller photos, a. feather a. a wide margin of blood. Matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Certificate of authenticity: Anke Degenhard, Hamburg, 26.10.2009. - The citation on the corrupting influence of human over-population on the world on the upper margin of the photo is from Tertullians 'Liber De Anima', written probably 209. Other than stated by Beard Tertullian lived ca. 160 - ca. 220. - US-American photographer. B. studied 1958-61 at Yale university, among others under the emigrated Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. In 1955 he travelled Africa for the first time. In 1961 he moved to Kenia, where he made friends a. collaborated with Karen Blixen. The endangered species of East Africa are the main subjects of his photos. B. enriches them with collages, drawings a. even blood, often in cooperation with local artists. He also made movies a. worked as an actor. - Mus.: New York (MoMA), Tokyo, Arles a. others. - Lit.: Saur a. others.
Peter Beard: Single Cheetah
Single Cheetah
Lot-No. 284
Proceeds : 68.100 €
1960/2007. Unique Piece. Silver gelatine print, collage, ink a. blood, 101 x 126,5 cm (40 x 50 inches), up. ri. sign. Peter Beard as well as inscribed 'Box 4191 Nbi'. Up. middle citation from church father Tertullian. With many smaller photos, a. feather a. a wide margin of blood. Matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Certificate of authenticity: Anke Degenhard, Hamburg, 26.10.2009. - The citation on the corrupting influence of human over-population on the world on the upper margin of the photo is from Tertullians 'Liber De Anima', written probably 209. Other than stated by Beard Tertullian lived ca. 160 - ca. 220. - US-American photographer. B. studied 1958-61 at Yale university, among others under the emigrated Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. In 1955 he travelled Africa for the first time. In 1961 he moved to Kenia, where he made friends a. collaborated with Karen Blixen. The endangered species of East Africa are the main subjects of his photos. B. enriches them with collages, drawings a. even blood, often in cooperation with local artists. He also made movies a. worked as an actor. - Mus.: New York (MoMA), Tokyo, Arles a. others. - Lit.: Saur a. others.