Bananas! Monkey takes blurry photos – worth £70k
A SET of blurry photos taken by a monkey are going on sale – and are valued at a whopping £70,000.
Mikki the chimpanzee was taught to use a camera by Russian artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid after they discovered him at the Moscow Circus.
The 15-year-old chimp’s snaps of Moscow’s Red Square are said to represent his take on the world in a place where millions of photos are taken by tourists.
The collection – called Our Moscow through the Eyes of Mikki — will be sold at auction next month and is expected to fetch between £50,000 and £70,000.
Blurry or art? ... One of the photos taken by Mikki in Moscow's Red Square
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The pictures, taken in 1998, include a shot of Mikki being taught how to hold and use a camera before he begins to shoot.
Suad Garayeva is Curator of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s, London, where the sale will take place on June 5.
He said: “It’s a very important piece of work, and it is very exciting to be able to sell the pictures at auction.
“There’s been a lot of interest because it’s very unusual and it works on so many different levels.
“It’s an alternative view of Moscow as seen through alternative vision.”
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