If you haven’t seen this great BBC documentary written and presented by David Attenborough yet, you can now watch it online HERE. Attenborough embarks on a personal quest to uncover the history of a wooden Easter Island statue which he bought at Christie’s in the 1980s. We follow him on an investigation to uncover the mysteries of his statue; a journey that takes him from Russia to Australia, England, the Pacific, a Tahiti beach and finally to one of the most remote places on earth, Easter Island.
Yours truly recently also made a short documentary about an Easter Island statue. You can see me talking about the moai kavakava from the James Hooper collection HERE – we’ll be selling it next week in Paris among many other Oceanic masterworks (info).
