May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
BEARD, MARK. Nineteen Famous People, Twenty-Two Friends and Six Nudes. Hand-colored photographs by Beard transfer-printed onto handmade Arches paper by Craig Fry and Beard with additional hand-coloring. Folio, 382x280 mm, contents loose as issued in publisher's cloth folding case, with 2 small holes in top edge of the lid. New York: Feard Press, 1992

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number two of only ten copies, signed by beard. Among the friends and famous people are: Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams, Henry Geldzahler, Robin Byrd, Pat Loud, Quentin Crisp, John Corigliano, Michael Feingold, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Virgil Thomson. The text reproduces Beard's handwritten recollections and comments about each subject.