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Auction Name Peter Beard Showcase Auction Total Sales (USD) 97,669.25
Auction Date October 25, 2024 - October 25, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 92,300.00
Sale Number #17203 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 140,500.00
Total Lots 51
Sold Lots 38 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 132,300.00
% of Lots Sold 74.51% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 200,500.00
Unsold Lots 13 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 48.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
39018 Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) (Danish, 1885-1962)

Peter Beard's Personal Copy of "Out of Africa",

New York: Modern Library-Random House. 1952 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 12,500.00
39023 Peter Beard (1938-2020)

Skull Photographs for the Harry Horn Collection with Evelyn Kuhn, Andy Warhol, and Larry Rivers (triptych),

1976 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,375.00
39034 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Enlargement of Starving Cheetah Cubs negative strip

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 7,812.50
39051 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Le Hazard at la Plus Grand Artist

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 7,500.00
39047 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Lions Collage,

circa 1970s USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,875.00
39027 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Uganda Popu Study (Baby Elephant Embryo),

1966 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,875.00
39043 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Peter Beard Art Edition Hardcover book in clamshell box

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,250.00
39049 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

J.L. Krapf's 1849 Route Map,

1977 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,750.00
39044 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Work in Progress Box 4191 Nairobi,

circa 1970s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,250.00
39042 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

I Have a Lively Recollection of the Lion, circa 1970s

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,500.00
39001 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Handwritten manuscript describing Karen Blixen's 1914 expedition to Kenya, c. 1960s

c. 1960s USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,875.00
39041 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

I Had a Farm in Africa, circa 1970s

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
39045 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Paradise Lost,

circa 1970s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,500.00
39008 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Selected images and contact sheets, including "Maureen Gallagher and Night Feeder,"1987; and "Loliondo Lion Charge," 1964 (13 works)

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,250.00
39028 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Elephant's Memory,

1968 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
39040 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Enlargement of Starving Cheetah Cubs Negative Strips

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,750.00
39006 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Elephant. Kenya (5 works),

1990 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,250.00
39038 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Loliondo Lion Charge, 1964

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
39050 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Give it a Try (Between Plexi),

circa 1970s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
39002 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Miscellaneous correspondence and text to (and from) Peter Beard, 1967-1974

1967-1974 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,062.50
39037 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Elephant Herd at Buffalo Springs, 1960

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,031.25
39012 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Untitled (Lion, Kenya), c. 1960s

c. 1960s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
39013 Thomas F. Dinesen (Danish, 1872-1979)

Selected Studies of Karen Blixen's Farm and Its Inhabitants, Kenya 1921-1925 (11 works)

1921-1925 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
39046 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Oltre la fine del Mondo Exhibition Poster,

1997 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 937.50
39025 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

The End of the Game Exhibition Poster,

1977-1978 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 812.50
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    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
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