Mirka Mora 'Girl with Bird' warm tones Signed: Signed and dated lower

Signed: Signed and dated lower right 'CB 79'

'Venetian Scene'

Written in 1924

of liminality and unanswered questions

Unfurling with every look

Mirka Mora 'Girl with Bird' warm tones Signed: Signed and dated lowerThe visual world of Mirka Mora, matriarch of the Melbourne art scene, was fantastical. Creatures human, animal and hybrid dance throughout, inspired by Eastern European fairy tales, angels and ancient mythology, as well as Moras own fecund imagination. Moras art was an act of resilience. Her family narrowly escaped the Holocaust, with Mora spending her adolescence hiding between French villages and forests evading capture. Her work is set in this