The FiFi Report 147

The Christmas List
Peter Beard: Art Edition, Signed and Numbered from 251 to 2500.
It’s all you want for Christmas! “Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of book Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon, painted on by Salvador Dalí, and made diaries with Andy Warhol; he toured with Truman Capote and the Rolling Stones, created books with Jacqueline Onassis and Mick Jagger—all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. As a fashion photographer, he took Vogue stars like Veruschka to Africa and brought new ones—most notably Iman—back to the U.S. with him. Now Peter Beard’s collages are reproduced as a group for the first time at the size they have always meant to be seen, many of them as foldouts. Hundreds of smaller-scale works and diaries fill the remaining spreads - magnified to show every deail, form Beard’s meticulous handwriting and old-master-inspired drawings to stones and bones and bits of animals pasted to the page.”
$1900 http://www.amazon.com Publisher: Taschen; (November 30, 2006)