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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 26, 2022 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Photographs | 248 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Elephant Reaching for the Last Branch on a Tree |
photographs
154.9 x 102.9 cm (61 x 40.5 in)
unique mural-sized gelatin silver print
signed, dated, and annotated ‘for the End of the Game' in black ink and ‘”a touching overwhelming structure ”
The Time is Always Now, New York
Private Collection
Christie's London, 13 November 2007, Sale 7434, Lot 108
Peter Beard, The End of the Game (New York, 1965), frontispiece
Peter Beard, The End of the Game (New York, 1977), unpaginated
Peter Beard, The End of the Game: Last Word from Paradise (San Francisco, 1988), p. 12 (variant)
Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits (Suffolk, 1999), p. 171
Peter Beard (London, 2008), pl. 5
Peter Beard , vol. 1 and 2 (Cologne, 2008), slipcase cover and unpaginated (variant)
Peter Beard
1938 - 2020
Untitled (Elephant Reaching for the Last Branch on a Tree, Kenya, June 1960)
a unique object, mural-sized gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and annotated ‘for the End of the Game' in black ink and ‘”a touching, overwhelming structure, massive as cast iron and lithe as running water.”' in blue ink, framed, a photograph collaged on the Plexiglas, a The Time is Always Now label and Centre National de la Photographie and Carnets Africains stamps on the reverse, 1960, printed later
image: 61 by 40 ½ in. (154.9 by 102.9 cm.)
frame: 63 by 43 in. (160 by 109.2 cm.)
