PETER BEARD (1938 ) Charging Lion Tanzania

Sale 2489 - Lot 293

Unsold

Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 45,000

PETER BEARD (1938- )
Charging Lion, Tanzania. Silver print, the image measuring 26 1/4x38 1/2 inches (66.7x97.8 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, the mount 31 1/2x42 inches (80x106.7 cm.), with Beard's signature, negative date, address, and extended caption, in white ink, on recto. 1964; printed later

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Additional Details

Acquired from Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles; to a Private New York Collector, in 2000.

Beard's handwritten caption reads: "1964. Loliondo charge with Glenn Cottar and Abagila (Pissi) for The End of the Game. Last Word from Paradise. Peter Beard, Box 4191, Nairobi, Kenya."

Beard's handwritten notations of Karen Blixen's quote (at the bottom of the photograph) reads: "Very calm, with mighty paws, flows through the flowering grasses, red-mouthed, silent, with the roar of thunder ready in his chest."