Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
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Modern and Post-War Art
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About this Item
signed, dated 96, numbered API and S49 and impressed with the Jupiter Studio foundry mark
Notes
Lot 377 and 378 are from ‘the Leopard Creek set, a series of 18 sculptures in which I explore the leopard form in a progression of different attitudes (from a state of repose through to awakening, hunting, stalking and killing). It was a project that allowed me to explore the animal in depth in terms of its form and what it represented to me. Here I explore the suppleness of the relaxed cat, the curve of the tail echoing in the form of the stretched body.’
Dylan Lewis
Provenance
Christie's, South Kensington, 11 June 2007, lot 16.
Literature
Laura Twiggs (ed) (2011) Dylan Lewis: Animal Bronzes 1989-2005: The Collectors' Guide, Cape Town: Pardus, another cast from the edition illustrated on page 42.