Provenance
The Time is Always Now Gallery, New York
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 9 April 2011, lot 53
Literature
P. Beard, The End of the Game, Cologne: Taschen, 2008, n.p.
Peter Beard, Cologne: Taschen, 2008, pl. 179
for both, a variant

129

Peter Beard

Elephant reaching for the last branch on a tree, Kenya

1960
Gelatin silver print with ink and paint, printed later.
58 x 38.2 cm (22 7/8 x 15 in.)
Signed, titled, dated and extensively annotated in ink and paint on the recto; The Time is Always Now copyright credit stamp on the verso.

Estimate
£18,000 - 22,000

Sold for £21,250

Contact Specialist
Lou Proud
Head of Sale
lproud@phillips.com
+ 44 207 318 4018

Photographs

London 8 May 2014 4pm

1
Helmut Newton
Hand in Shoe, Paris
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £10,625
2
William Klein
Smoke + Veil, Paris (Vogue)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
3
Michel Comte
Helena Christensen V (Safe Sex Campaign)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,000
4
Michel Comte
Helena Christensen VII (Contact Sheet)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £9,375
5
Frank Horvat
Shoe and Eiffel Tower D, Paris
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 †
Sold for £6,000
6
Horst P. Horst
Round the Clock I, New York
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £11,250
7
Jim Lee
Ossie Clark/ Aeroplane
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £6,875
8
William Klein
Hat + 5 Roses, Paris (Vogue)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £3,750
9
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Three young women from The Parisians
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠
Sold for £3,750
10
Helmut Newton
Sie Kommen, The Beginning of 'The Naked and Dressed', Paris
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
Sold for £10,625
11
Herb Ritts
Male Nude with Tumbleweed, Paradise Cove
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500
Sold for £4,375
12
Guy Bourdin
Untitled (Nude and egg)
Estimate £2,500 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £6,875
13
Guy Bourdin
Untitled (Nude on a table)
Estimate £2,500 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £5,250
14
Sante D'Orazio
Cindy Crawford
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500
Sold for £6,875
15
Guido Argentini
Selected Images
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £6,875
16
Norman Parkinson
Wenda over the Rolls, Vogue, April
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
17
David Drebin
The Girl in the Red Dress
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
18
David Drebin
I Love You with Girl
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
19
Horst P. Horst
Tulips, Oyster Bay, New York
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
Sold for £12,500
20
Albert Watson
Kate Moss, Marrakech
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ♠
Sold for £18,750
21
Gavin Bond
Juste Parce Que Je Suis Belle: Numéro Trois (Plate 2)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £6,250
22
Gavin Bond
Iza (Goulart) from Backstage: Volume IV
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £6,875
23
Miroslav Tichý
Untitled
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £2,375
24
Michael Dweck
Jacqueline and Friend, Montauk, New York
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000
Sold for £1,875
25
Miroslav Tichý
Untitled
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £2,500
26
Gavin Bond
Vicky from Backstage: Volume IV
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
27
Helmut Newton
Jerry Hall, Spitting, French Vogue, Paris
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
Sold for £11,250
28
Helmut Newton
Selected Images
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
Sold for £15,000
29
David Bailey
Box of Pin-Ups
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £8,750
30
Herbert List
Jean Cocteau I, Paris
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ♠
Sold for £2,750
31
Paul Strand
Man in a Derby, New York
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
32
Lutz Dille
Selected Images
Estimate £1,500 - 2,500 ♠
33
Richard Avedon
His Holiness The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Gyume Tantric Monastery, Kamataka, India, January 6
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
Sold for £11,875
34
Yousuf Karsh
Pablo Picasso
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ‡
Sold for £5,625
35
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Author Truman Capote ice-skating, Rockefeller Center rink, New York
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠
36
Martin Munkácsi
Dance instructor Arthur Murray ballroom dancing with his wife Kathryn
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡♠
37
Robert Mapplethorpe
Thomas and Dovanna
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000
Sold for £30,000
38
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Teenagers Jessany Hines and John Shawver, both 17, of Oklahoma City play pass the ring from pencil to pencil
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠
Sold for £3,500
39
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Prostitute Playing Russian Billiards, Boulevard Rochechouart
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠
Sold for £3,500
40
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Couple d'amoureux, quartier place d'Italie
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ♠
41
Elliott Erwitt
California
Estimate £1,500 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £1,875
42
Eve Arnold
Bar Girl, Havana, Cuba
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500
Sold for £4,000
43
Elliott Erwitt
Paris
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
44
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Merry Go Round at Luxembourg Garden, Paris
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
45
Willy Ronis
Le Petit Parisien
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £2,500
46
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
47
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Natcho Aguirre, Santa Clara, Mexico
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
48
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Valencia, Spain
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
49
Elliott Erwitt
North Carolina
Estimate £1,500 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £2,375
50
Josef Koudelka
Invasion by Warsaw Pact Troops, Prague, August
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ♠
Sold for £7,500
51
Dmitri Baltermants
At Fidel Castro's place
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £2,375
52
Dmitri Baltermants
Grief (Ditch of Kerch)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £4,750
53
Aaron Siskind
Gloucester (Variant)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
54
Lee Friedlander
Wilmington, Delaware
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡
Sold for £5,000
55
William Eggleston
Untitled (Greenwood, Mississippi)
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 ‡
Sold for £50,000
56
William Eggleston
Memphis, Tennessee
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡
Sold for £4,750
57
William Eggleston
Untitled
Estimate £7,000 - 10,000 ‡
58
William Eggleston
Untitled (Varner Grocery)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
59
Ernst Haas
Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
Sold for £5,625
60
William Eggleston
Memphis, Tennessee
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
Sold for £8,750
61
Stephen Shore
Presidio, Texas, February 21
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡
Sold for £7,500
62
William Eggleston
Untitled (Laundry Line)
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
Sold for £3,500
63
Ernst Haas
Rodeo, Madison Square Garden, NYC
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £4,750
64
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Eric Hutsell, 27 Years Old, Southern California, $20
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £2,500
65
Gregory Crewdson
Untitled (Pregnant Woman/ Pool), 1999 from Twilight
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
Sold for £14,375
66
William Eggleston
Untitled (Near Minter City and Glendora, Mississippi)
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 ‡
Sold for £62,500
67
Andy Warhol
Body Girls
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500
Sold for £5,250
68
Andy Warhol
Jewelry Store Window
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500
Sold for £4,375
69
William Klein
Cowhey Marine, New York
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ‡
70
Chris Shaw
Selected Images from Life as a Night Porter
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
71
Nan Goldin
Joey in the hallway at Hornstrasse, Berlin
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000
Sold for £3,500
72
David LaChapelle
Amanda Lepore: Addicted To Diamonds, New York
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £12,500
73
Qiu Zhijie
Tattoo II
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡
Sold for £3,750
74
Hendrik Kerstens
Cap, August
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠†
Sold for £6,000
75
Desirée Dolron
Xteriors I
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 ‡♠
Sold for £56,250
76
David LaChapelle
Cathedral, Los Angeles
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
77
Ahmet Ertuğ
'The Oval Room', Reading Room of The National Library of France, Paris
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000
78
Candida Höfer
Museo di Capodimonte Napoli I
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ♠
79
Candida Höfer
El Escorial VI
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ‡♠
80
Vik Muniz
Shoeshine Boy, after Lewis Hine from Rebus
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
Sold for £16,250
81
Vik Muniz
Kyber Pass, Self-Portrait as an Oriental (after Rembrandt) from Pictures of Junk
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ‡
Sold for £31,250
82
Sandy Skoglund
Fresh Hybrid
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
Sold for £15,000
83
Ruud van Empel
World #30
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡♠
Sold for £11,875
84
Yasumasa Morimura
An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Hand-Shaped Earring)
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
85
Bill Brandt
Pre-war London, going out for the evening (Park Crescent)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠
Sold for £3,750
86
Richard Avedon
Dorian Leigh, coat by Dior, Avenue Montaigne, Paris, August
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £8,125
87
Irving Penn
Vogue Fashion Photograph (Lima, Peru)
Estimate £35,000 - 45,000
Sold for £40,000
88
Bill Brandt
Hampstead, London
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
89
André Kertész
Distortion of a glass, October 17
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £4,375
90
Irving Penn
Composition with Pitcher and Eau de Cologne, New York, 7 December
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £10,000
91
Irving Penn
Two Guedras, Morocco
Estimate £18,000 - 22,000
Sold for £20,000
92
Horst P. Horst
Classical Still Life, New York
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ‡
93
Robert Mapplethorpe
Tulips ('Just To Thank You')
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡
Sold for £4,000
94
František Drtikol
Nude with drape
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡♠
95
Horst P. Horst
Odalisque I, New York
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £8,750
96
Robert Mapplethorpe
Orchid
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
97
Nobuyoshi Araki
Kaori
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £17,500
98
Robert Mapplethorpe
Flower
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
99
Albert Watson
16th Century Aztec Fan
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £2,500
100
Nobuyoshi Araki
Untitled from Colourscapes
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
Sold for £20,000
101
Nobuyoshi Araki
Untitled
Estimate £1,800 - 2,200
102
Robert Mapplethorpe
Untitled
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £4,375
103
Robert Mapplethorpe
Waves
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,000
104
Robert Mapplethorpe
A Season in Hell
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000
Sold for £15,000
105
Man Ray
Untitled
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
Sold for £17,500
106
Tina Modotti
Hammer and Sickle
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £20,000
107
Alexander Rodchenko
Museum Series Portfolio Number 2: Portraits
Estimate £18,000 - 22,000
Sold for £22,500
108
Erwin Blumenfeld
Manina, Paris
Estimate £30,000 - 40,000 ♠
Sold for £80,500
109
Tina Modotti
María Marín de Orozco
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
Sold for £15,000
110
Tina Modotti
Demonstrations by campesinos, Mexico
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
111
Paul Strand
Young Farmer, Po Valley
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
112
Paul Strand
The Mother, Luzzara, Italy
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
113
Paul Strand
Near the Po, Luzzara, Italy
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
114
Andrey Tarkovsky
Polaroids
Estimate £9,000 - 12,000
115
Josef Sudek
The Last Roses
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡♠
Sold for £15,000
116
Josef Sudek
Glass and egg on a plate
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ♠
Sold for £21,250
117
Josef Sudek
Paper Abstraction from the cycle, Paper Labyrinth
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
118
Josef Sudek
Prague panorama
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡♠
Sold for £6,875
119
Robert Polidori
Vintage car with composite parts, Havana
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
Sold for £12,500
120
Steve McCurry
Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, Pakistan
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £7,500
121
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
Portrait III, Ethiopie
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
122
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
Encens, Japon
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
123
Sebastião Salgado
Dinka Cattle Camp of Amak, Southern Sudan
Estimate £7,500 - 8,500 †
Sold for £10,000
124
René Burri
Wilted Lotus Blossoms, former Summer Palace, Kunming Lake, Beijing, China
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 †
Sold for £9,375
125
Leni Riefenstahl
Tutu
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
126
Leni Riefenstahl
Water Carrier
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
127
Edward Burtynsky
Dryland Farming #13, Monegros County, Aragon, Spain
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
128
Peter Beard
Tsavo Natl. Park/ For the End of the Game/ Last word from Paradise
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
Sold for £18,750
129
Peter Beard
Elephant reaching for the last branch on a tree, Kenya
Estimate £18,000 - 22,000
Sold for £21,250
130
Peter Beard
Francis Bacon on his roof at 80 Narrow Street, London
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £30,000
131
Peter Beard
Buffalo Herd/ Buffalo Control Diptych
Estimate £22,000 - 28,000
Sold for £27,500
132
Nick Brandt
Cheetah and Cubs Lying on Rock, Serengeti
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ♠
Sold for £25,000
133
Harry Cory Wright
West across the Minch, Peterburn, Wester Ross
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ♠
Sold for £7,500
134
Ansel Adams
Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
Sold for £16,250
135
Sebastião Salgado
Iceberg Between Paulet Islands and the Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Estimate £7,500 - 8,500 †
Sold for £9,375
136
Peter Gasser
Selected Images
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ‡
137
Zhan Wang
Landscape - Chicago
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
Sold for £6,250
138
Vitaliy and Elena Vasilieva
Untitled (Centre Georges-Pompidou) from Apokolipsis in Art
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
139
Tim Parchikov
Bee-garden, Islavskoe from Bizzarro
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500
Sold for £7,500
140
Harry Gruyaert
#18 from Medias TV Shots
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ‡♠
141
Michael Dweck
Flag at Snug Harbor, Montauk, New York
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000
Sold for £1,375
142
Helmut Newton
SUMO
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500
Sold for £6,000

Photographs

London 8 May 2014 4pm

Provenance

Literature

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Peter Beard

Elephant reaching for the last branch on a tree, Kenya

Photographs