Alexander Calder, Butterfly, 1974
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Ancient Egyptian wooden kohl spoon in the shape of a gazelle; date unknown
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Kawanabe Kyosai, Black Crow, Japan, 19th century
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Tomcat’s Turf by Paul Klee , 1919 Watercolour, gouache, and oil on gesso on two sections of fabric mounted on cardboard
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Georgia O’Keeffe, From The Faraway, Nearby, 1938
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Don Hong-Oai. Birds in Flight
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Danny Lyon, Man hugging a turkey. USA 1968
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Joseph Beuys, Dove, Food, Rainbow. 1949 watercolor on card.
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Shigemasa, Netsuke with snail on a well bucket, Japan, early 19th century
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Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1894-1975), Untitled (Deer under tree)
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Leonora Carrington - And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur (1953)
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I confess I have never heard of her but am reading up now and she was a fascinating character. Thanks for the pointer.
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Very recent BBC4 documentary on her turned her life into a spectacle, insulting the unique qualities of her work that make her worthy of attention: the strength of her oneric atmospheres, the power of her special animals, distilling perhaps Bosch, de Chirico, The Symbolists.


