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Peter Beard
Ape Skull from Rwanda
Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000
Sold For
$10,000
Lot Details
signed, titled, inscribed and dated "ape skull from Rwanda 1984 smuggled out through the Congo by Cossna for Irving Penn on request via Cottars Camp (MARRA) nairobi + USA where Penn found it "too gorey" Peter Beard Hog Ranch Box 47616 nairobi Kenya E.A." upper left; further stamped with the "Stress & Density, Berlin" exhibition and "The Time is Always Now" copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps on the reverse; further stamped with the "Stress & Density, Berlin" exhibition, "Stress & Density, Madrid" and "The Time is Always Now" copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps on the frame backing; "Carnet Africains" exhibition label affixed to the reverse of the frame
gelatin silver print with blood and ink
23 3/4 x 19 in. (60.3 x 48.3 cm.)
Photographed in 1984 and executed later.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Provenance
Exhibited