Modern and Contemporary Art
Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023
Evening Sale
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About this Item
signed, dated 96 and numbered 3/6
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
Dylan Lewis Studio, Stellenbosch, 2010.
Private Collection.
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 39.