Gorillas Koko and Michael have produced many beautiful paintings over the years, some representational and some more abstract. We've reproduced some of their best work here, in the form of high-resolution digital prints (unframed). Some are limited edition and numbered.
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"Bird" by KokoKoko's representational painting of a bluebird that used to visit her often and land on her shoulder.
• Dimensions: 17" x 17" Price: $350 |
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"Love" by KokoWhen Penny (Dr. Patterson) to paint "love", this is what Koko produced from a full palette of colors. The painting includes the date, title, and Koko's signature printed at the bottom.
• Dimensions: 11" x 13" Price: $100 |
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"Pink Pink Stink Nice Drink" by KokoKoko's self-titled rendition of a photo she saw in a book that contained a valley with a stream banked by beautiful flowers ("drink" is her sign for water, and "stink" for flowers).
• Dimensions: 18.5" x 16" Price: $350 |
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"Apple Chase" by MichaelMichael painted his dog Apple (see inset) from memory and called it "Apple Chase", after the game of "chase" they used to play together. Michael chose the gray-scale colors from a complete palette of rainbow colors.
• Dimensions: 13" x 15" Price: $350 |
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"Stink Gorilla More" by MichaelMichael's representational and painting of a bouquet of flowers, and he gave the painting its title using sign language.
• Dimensions: 16.5" x 16.5" Price: $350 |
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"Toy Dinosaur" by MichaelWhen a caregiver asked Michael to create a painting based on his toy plastic dinosaur as a model, this is what Michael painted. Just before finishing the piece, he turned the painting over and pressed it to the ground, thus producing the dinosaur's scales.
• Dimensions: 14.2" x 17" Price: $350 |
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"Me, Myself, Good" by MichaelMichael's powerful self-portrait, signed with his own handprint (to scale). If you look closely at the colorful shape to the left of the handprint, you may see a gorilla profile (as one autistic student observed).
• Dimensions: 16.5" x 16.5" Price: $175 |
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"Pepper" by MichaelMichael's representational painting of a red bell pepper.
• Dimensions: 16" x 12" Price: $100
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