Bidspirit auction | Framed Baboon Photograph Print

Framed Baboon Photograph Print - This color photograph, likely a chromogenic print or digital pigment print produced from an original color slide, features a tight close-up portrait of an Olive Baboon. The image bears a stylized signature in metallic gold-toned ink in the bottom right quadrant. By Grand Rapids Michigan artist Jim Ayotte. The reverse of the frame includes a red award ribbon from the Southwestern Michigan Council of Camera Clubs for Acceptance Color Nature Slide, alongside a typed label titled BEAUTIFUL BABOON that identifies the subject as an Olive Baboon photographed at the Ngorongro [sic] Crater in Tanzania, Africa. An archival mounting label is present, stating the art has been mounted with archival M.M.T. and can be heat released without damage. The print is professionally mounted with a dark gray mat and housed in a dark brown fluted wood frame. Image: 16 x 23 inches Frame: 28 x 36 inches The photograph appears in good condition with no evidence of fading, silvering, or foxing. The frame shows minor surface scuffs, and the paper dust cover on the reverse is torn in multiple places.