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Studio Bongard

sculpture by Tara and Sylvain

The Last Dodo

This Stoneware clay dodo was created by Sylvain Bongard in 2020. has a height 90 cm

Depicts this amazing testament to extinction at the hand of man.

PRICE: 9000 EUROS

The Dodo used to walk around,
And take the sun and air.
The sun yet warms his native ground –
The Dodo is not there!

The voice which used to squawk and squeak
Is now for ever dumb –
Yet may you see his bones and beak
All in the Mu-se-um.

By Hilaire Belloc

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The Last Dodo

The first recorded mention of the dodo was by Dutch sailors in 1598. In the following years, the bird was hunted by sailors and invasive species, while its habitat was being destroyed.

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