Donald Gialanella - Metal Sculpture
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Celestial Coelacanth
Private collection
46"x 25 " acrylic. 1994
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I was always facinated by this creature assumed extinct for 65 million years and then "rediscovered" again in a fisherman's net off the South African coast in 1938. Painted during my tenure at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey.