Unicorn
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Unicorn

by Dutesco, Roberto
item #: 11553
 
Sale Price: $4,000.00
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About the Artwork
Handmade silver gelatin print. Signed, dated and titled in the margin by the artist. Floated in a handmade black frame.
Sable Island, Nova Scotia is the only emergent part of the outer Continental Shelf of eastern North America. It is the site of over 475 shipwrecks since the early 17th century. Of these, the only known survivors were their horses. For hundreds of years, the island was seen as a fearful place: the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic.'
The Wild Horses of Sable Island, named after the island they inhabit, are now the only terrestrial mammals on Sable. They exhibit great variability in size, conformation and color most closely resemble the Spanish barb - a small, tough horse that originated in North Africa- and the Acadian horse - the common working horse of the Atlantic Provinces from the 17th to the 19th centuries.