Artist:
Peter Beard
Artwork:
Giraffes in Mirage on the Taru Dessert, Kenya, June 1960
Size:
overall: 122 x 169.5 cm
Edition Size:
n/a
Medium:
Gelatin silver print, with paint, ink and blood handwork
Creation year:
1960
Category:
Photography
Christie's London
Date:
2016-05-20
Event:
Photographs
Lot Number:
78
Notes:
Annotated 'A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage. Karen Blixen' (in the image); Signed, titled, and dated with various annotations in ink (recto); Printed later