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Study of the White Cockatoo
pencil
14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.4 cm.)
and another study sheet of the same subject, pencil, 14 x 10 in. (35.5 x 25.4 cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

The white cockatoo was the subject for Spencer's oil painting, The White Cockatoo or Coronation Cockatoo, (Private Collection), 1937, (Bell 242). Mr Turk, the Cookham swan upper, owned a white cockatoo whose favourite call was "Goodbye", to which the expected answer was also "Goodbye".

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