Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023

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ZAR 822 250
Lot 88
  • Dylan Lewis; Rising Leopard (S43)
  • Dylan Lewis; Rising Leopard (S43)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 700 000 - 900 000
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ZAR 822 250
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About this Item

South African 1964-
Rising Leopard (S43)

signed, dated 96 and numbered 3/6

bronze with a brown patina
height: 77cm; length: 180cm; width: 65cm

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.

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