Apr 18, 2013 - Sale 2311

Sale 2311 - Lot 295

Unsold
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
BEARD, PETER (1938- )
"Machine in the Garden, Tsavo National Park." Silver print, 12x18 inches (30.5x45.7 cm.), with Beard's signature, title, dates, and inscription (complete with a small drawing), in ink, in the margins. 1972; printed 1989

Additional Details

The full text reads: "Mark, Warm Greetings from the 'Starvo' moonscape complete with Cessna 180 and 40,000 dead eles (+ 5,000 starved rhinos)" (left edge), "from 'The End of the Game'--Last word from Paradise--all best wishes & admiration, Peter (Beard) 9/'89" (top edge), and "There was once a little orphan ele / who had trouble filling his belly / with absence of rain / he soon became / a particularly smelly ele skele" (right edge).
With the Certificate of Authenticity from the Peter Beard Studio.