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LOT DETAILS
Titled "Night Moves - African Elephants", signed lower right and dated (19)88, oil on canvas, 54.6 x 67.3cm (21 1/2 x 26 1/2in); housed in a costly custom frame and framed to match the preceding lot, outside dimensions 80 x 92.7cm (31 1/2 x 36 1/2in); Provenance: Rocky Mountain Art Galleries Ltd., original 1988 purchase price $15,503.40 (receipt included); present private Ontario collection; also included are catalogues from Christopher Queen Galleries, Mill Pond Press and Rocky Mountain Art Galleries Ltd., each with reproduced images of this important work; a signed artist proof print editioned 9/56 accompanies this lot as well; "Night Moves - African Elephants" is an absolutely stunning painting, which depicts the vast African landscape with river in the foreground, light glistening through the clouds and a herd of elephants preparing for nightfall; a comparable work titled "Elephants" was sold in September, 2022 at Jackson Hole Art Auction, Wyoming, for $17,000 USD; John Seerey-Lester, British/American, 1946-2020