Title: Lascow and the Spirit of the Hunt Location: Crown Center Artist: Cherish Pageau David Rolston Hallmark Production Art Sponsor: Crown Center “Lascow” was inspired by the cave paintings seen on the cave walls at Lascaux in France. The imagery consists of running animals, mainly bulls (aurochs), horses, and deer. According to artist Cherish Pague, “The significance of these paintings to me is that, being 18,000 years old, they are one of the earliest if not the first forms of art known to Art History. Painted in a primitive time by a primitive culture, they are strikingly beautiful, graceful and complex.” Artists Pageau and Rolston shaped and textured the cow to reproduce the look of a cave wall. The images of the Aurochs and Horses playfully bound over and under the contours of the cow. “The images of the animals that adorned the cave in the prehistory of our culture will now come back to present day in an appropriate contemporary piece of art. The cave become the backdrop of the aurochs and now the cow would become the backdrop of the cave,” said the artists.				This cow was sold in the live auction conducted by Sotheby's on October 5, 2001 at Starlight Theatre. Send a Postcard

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