titled and numbered in pencil in margin below image: 29/40 Late Afternoon V
her three Cabbage Patch dolls nestled below
Dimensions: 71 x 84 x 2 cm
With Port Jackson Press Australia embossed stamp in margin
This is a moving document of a young man’s promise
Mirka Mora 'Elephant Doll' landscape titled and numbered in pencilMirka Moras interest in dolls and puppets, or soft sculpture, began with her theatre and mime training. As an adult she also collected antique dolls, before finally embarking on creating them herself in 1970. The characters she birthed in cloth felt, to Mora, like substitute children; at the time, her sons were living apart from her. Indeed, despite being mere paint and cloth, Mora's dolls felt alive. When they were first exhibited in 1971, John Reed