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Art created by gorillas for sale

by Angie Felton (Subscribe to Angie Felton's posts)
Sep 11th 2007 3:27PM

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If you have a jungle-themed kid's room or a gorilla lover in your house, there are some auctions on Ebay that might have you swinging from the trees.

Three paintings by Okie, a western lowland gorilla housed in Boston's Franklin Park Zoo, created as part of a program to keep the gorillas intellectually stimulated, are available to the highest bidder until this Saturday.

Okie's artwork has proven popular in the past, a painting at a fundraiser earlier this summer sold for $10,000 and it has been featured in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and The O'Reilly Factor.

Bidding for each current piece starts at $1,500 with all proceeds going to the zoo. That's a little steep for a finger painting, but having been created by giant hairy fingers makes it a great conversation piece and a unique Christmas gift for the person who has everything.

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