West Indian Ocean Coelacanth
by Barry Kent MacKay
Original - Sold
Price
$700
Dimensions
24.000 x 15.000 x 0.250 inches
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Title
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth
Artist
Barry Kent MacKay
Medium
Painting - Oils On Compressed Wood Panel
Description
The West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) was discovered by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer (1907 – 2004), a South African who shared my interest in birds, but will forever be remembered for finding the first specimen known to science of a coelacanth, which, prior to her finding and preserving one from a fish market, were believed to have died out near the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs. Courtenay-Latimer was only 24 at the time! It was seventeen years before another was found, and in 1998 a new coelacanth species was caught near Sulawesi in the East Indian Ocean. Both species are critically endangered. My painting is in oils, on compressed wood panel, approximately 15 by 24 inches. The species I portrayed is blue (with irregular pale blue or whitish splotches) while the Indonesian Coelacanth is more brownish, but water quickly absorbs light from the colour spectrum with red being the first to go, violet the last, creating a fun challenge to the artist. $700.00. Sold.
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April 19th, 2021
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