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Fancy Pigeon

Fancy Pigeon

Fancy Pigeon

1979

Polished bronze casting. No base.

Height: 9¼”

“This work began from the shape that occurs as the natural result of the ‘wedging’ of the clay. This is the process of working it by hand on a table to get it properly malleable. As a young man I rented a studio, the loft of which was inhabited by a colony of fancy pigeons.” Hugo Powell