2 volumes set. Artist, diarist, collector, and writer 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 collaborated with Francis Bacon and Salvador Dali, he made diaries with Andy Warhol, and toured with Truman Capote, Terry Southern, and the Rolling Stones – all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. Beard uses his photographs as a canvas onto which he superimposes multi-layered contact sheets, ephemera, found objects, newspaper clippings that are elaborately embellished with meticulous handwriting, old-master inspired drawings, and often swaths of animal blood used as paint. Fast and very well-packed shipping. (Cardboard and bubble wrap. Protected corners). Possibility of hand delivery in Paris.