*RAYMOND M. ROGERS (b. 1958) 'Mount Bugarach'
French landscape view, signed lower left, oil on canvas, 85cm x 103cm
Provenance: The Soloman Gallery, Bruton Place, London
Private Collection, Dorset
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£400 - £800
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£550 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
The Pic de Bugarach or Pech de Bugarach is the highest summit (1230 m) in the Corbières Massif in the French Midi. Due to the mountain's unusual geology, a number of New Agers (called "esoterics" by local residents) believed that the mountain contained aliens living in a spacecraft. This group also believed that the upcoming end to the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar would result in some form of apocalypse. They believed that on 21 December 2012, the aliens supposedly living in the mountain would emerge to save them.
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