Peter Beard 'World Record Class Rhino in the Aberdare Forest'

Peter Beard
1938 - 2020
'World Record Class Rhino in the Aberdare Forest'

a unique object, gelatin silver print with ink and blood, signed and titled in ink in the margin, signed, titled, dated and annotated 'from the End of the Game' in ink on the mat, framed, a Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, label on the reverse
image: 14½ by 18½ in. (36.8 by 47 cm.)
frame: 25 by 30⅞ in. (63.5 by 78.4 cm.)
Executed in 1972, printed later.

Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.

This print is in generally excellent condition. The sheet is gently rippled. As is typical of Beard's practice, there are occasional deposits of blood and ink on the image and in the margins. There are graphite markings in the margin corners.

Annotations on the mat as follows:
'"We have lived in the best time and seen the wonders of wildlife and belong to a brotherhood the numbers of which have memories that cannot be matched. We have lived on into a new world which I do not pretend to understand." Sir Alfred Pease in a letter to Teddy Roosevelt 1909'

'World Record Class Rhino in the Aberdare Forest 1972 (horn circa 47"-48")'