Vista Alegre Passenger Pigeons – (Armando Pimentel De Abreu) Previous Next


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Date: 1970

Size: 42 x 36 cm

Museum: University of Pretoria Museums (Pretoria, South Africa)

Technique: Ceramic

This hand painted bisque sculpture of a pair of passenger pigeons painted by the Portuguese artist, Armando Pimentel (b.1930) of the Vista Alegre factory. The mating pair of birds are resting on a flowering branch, with the more colourfully-plumed male pigeon positioned above the female. Pimento

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