Notes

'The life-size version of this sculpture is 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

Everard Read, Cape Town, 2007.

Private Collection.

Literature

Laura Twiggs (2011) Dylan Lewis: Animal Bronzes 1989-2005: The Collector's Guide, Cape Town: Pardus, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on page 100.

Deborah Corner (1997) Dylan Lewis: The Leopard, Cape Town: Creda Press, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on page 16.