Name: PETER BEARD (1938–2020)
Brand: Ele Portfolio
Price: 70000.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

PETER BEARD (1938–2020)
Ele Portfolio
New York: Peter Beard Studio, 2008. Portfolio of fifteen gelatin silver prints, printed by Steve Rifkin from the artist's original negatives; each signed, dated and numbered '6/15' and two titled in ink (margins); image sizes range from 8 x 23⁵⁄₈ in. (20.3 x 60 cm.) to 16 x 23³⁄₄ in. (40.6 x 60.3 cm.); each sheet 23¹⁄₂ x 29¹⁄₄ in. (59.6 x 74.2 cm.); together with title page, plate list and 'Dear Elephant Sir' essay insert by Romain Gary; number six from an edition of fifteen, plus two artist's proofs; enclosed in clamshell portfolio with gold lettering on spine and cover, 25¹⁄₂ x 31¹⁄₂ in. (64.7 x 80 cm.).

Donated by Peter and Nejma Beard to the Oceana New York Gala;
acquired at the above by the present owner, October, 4, 2019.

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The portfolio of fifteen prints on offer here was self-published by the artist in 2008 and includes his most celebrated images of elephants from 1960 through 1984. Beard chronicled the destruction of savannas, forests and wetlands in East Africa and the resulting starvation of thousands of elephants. An artist, ethnologist and conservationist, Beard cared deeply about bringing attention to these horrific effects of human intervention and climate-change.