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Gerard de Leeuw

South African 1912-1985 


Born in Amsterdam in 1912, Gerard de Leeuw decided early on that he wanted to be a sculptor and studied at various schools in Holland, including the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp under Isidore Opsomer, and in France, including in the studio of André Lhôte in Paris. He followed his family to South Africa in 1932, after his goldsmith father migrated to Cape Town in 1928 for health reasons. De Leeuw was inspired by the work of animalier Francois Pompon, which was to have a lasting influence on his own animal studies, and late-Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini. He mastered the intricacies of the lost-wax method of bronze casting, or cire perdue, and, with the exception of the larger sculptures, insisted on casting all his own work in his suburban foundry in Orange Grove, Johannesburg, with some help from his assistant Simon Rammutla and his sons John and Gerard junior (whose portrait bust as a young boy he made in 1960). Always the perfectionist, De Leeuw would destroy works that he found to be unsatisfactory.


50 lots offered      82.00% sold      ZAR 6 675 576
 

  Including Premium and VAT Results include Buyer's Premium and VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Praying Rain Bird
9 Oct 2024
Sold for ZAR 105 525
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Tzaneen, Transvaal
8 Jul 2024
Sold for ZAR 37 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Founder Maquette
28 May 2024
Starting at ZAR 150 000
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Gerard de Leeuw; Manie Strydom
10 Jul 2023
ZAR 8 000 - 12 000
 
Gerard de Leeuw; Impundulu
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 82 075
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Praying Rain Bird
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 82 075
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Guinea-fowl
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 37 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Secretary Bird
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 93 800
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Lamb
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 76 213
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Gerard de Leeuw; Boerbok
5 Jul 2023
Starting at ZAR 80 000
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Gerard de Leeuw; Seal
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 32 830
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Gerard de Leeuw; Bird
5 Jul 2023
Sold for ZAR 37 520
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT