Feather Frontier, 1993.
Acrylic on colored card.
Property of the Australasian Society for the Preservation, Curation and Exhibition of Feline Art Inc., Sydney
64 x 42cm.

Artist
Ruxy Bux, a three-year-old Birman, began painting when she was only three months old. This exceptionally early start has been attributed to her mother's ability as an expressionist painter and her recognition and encouragement of Ruxy Bux's precocious talent.

Curatorial Notes
"...a very early work, "Feather Frontier", is made up of a regular, wall-like mass of short vertical smears in red and pink which suggest an organic barrier of some kind. I found this piece overly repetitive and lacking in any real insights. Its inclusion [in the "Three Birman Painters." exhibition, London,1995] was especially regrettable because it undermined her later, more interesting works on display, such as "Oh La La! Feather Faux Pas Dans Le Car," 1994, and "Partly Plundered Plumage," 1995. Cat Art Today, Sept, '95.

Sent In By: Dominic Taylor of Wellington, New Zealand.

Estimated Value: The very young age of the artist and the appeal of the verifying photographs which accompany this work, are factors which will tend to outweigh the obvious imaturity of this painting and it could well fetch in excess of $10,000 in one of the more commercially oriented galleries (MONPA).