Lot 1296: SPIRIN, GENNADY. b.1948.- "Four Calling Birds,"

"Four Calling Birds," watercolor with pencil and touches of gilt, 222 x 171 mm oval, signed "Gennady Spirin" lower right and again below image. Matted. Published: The Twelve Days of Christmas (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Children's, 2009), p 11 and front cover of dust jacket. "Four Calling Birds," or, in Spirin's take, three parrots and a macaw. Lovely image from the fourth day of Christmas, chosen to grace the front cover.