Joane Lefson rescued a one-month-old piglet from a slaughterhouse and soon realized that the animal was special. According to Joane, of his own free will, the little pig started painting canvases in a sanctuary located in South Africa.
The little pig is known as Pigcasso and one of his artworks has just broken a record. The artistic pig made a painting that was sold for roughly 20 thousand euros. The work, “Wild and Free”, was bought by a German person 72 hours after being put up for sale and surpassed the record for the most expensive sale of a work of art created by an animal. Before, the record belonged to the chimpanzee Congo, which sold a painting for around 14 thousand euros in 2005.
Meet Pigcasso, a pig who was rescued in 2016 from slaughter and enjoys painting
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Pigcasso has made a lot of paintings over the years and some of them are auctioned for purchase
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With the help of his owner Joanne Lefson, Pigcasso recently sold one of his paintings for over 20,000 euros at an auction
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“Wild and Free” was bought by a German person 72 hours after being put up for sale
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Pigcasso’s work surpassed the record for the most expensive sale of a work of art created by an animal
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Before, the record belonged to the chimpanzee Congo, which sold a painting for around 14 thousand euros in 2005
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When Joanne noticed that Pigcasso ate or destroyed everything except some old paintbrushes that were laying in his stall, she decided to nurture the pig’s potential talent
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Here’s a process video that shows Pigcasso painting on canvas
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It didn’t take long before Pigcasso began to paint – and over time, the painting process developed into an extraordinary collaboration between human and pig
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