Aug 22, 2024 - Sale 2677

Sale 2677 - Lot 323

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

MARK BEARD (1956) & text by AIDEN FINBAR BRADY (1966-)


Aiden.
New York: Feard Press, 1992.

Limited edition, quarto, from a run of only 25 copies, Artist's Proof #2, signed by Beard and Brady on the rear colophon, title printed in red and black; illustrated with numerous transfer prints, some hand-colored, with pencil manuscript text below photographs; hand-bound in black cloth by Craig Fry, blind stamped title to front board, black endpapers (a bit rubbed; lacking publisher's slipcase); 11 x 7 1/2 in.

An intimate portrait of artist Beard's experiences living with Aiden Finbar Brady, an English artist, student, and sex worker whose relationship with Brady is depicted here in all its vulnerability and sensuality.