“In March, Christie’s Auction House of New York City unloaded all of the 60 paintings created by artists that happen also to be elephants, including Sao (a former log-hauler in Thailand’s timber industry), whose work was likened by Yale art historian Mia Fineman to work of Paul Gauguin for its ‘broad, gentle, curvy brush strokes’ and ‘a depth and maturity.’ Fineman said she is writing a book on the three distinct regional styles of Thai elephant art.” – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)