Modern and Contemporary Art

Live Virtual Auction, 28 March 2023

Evening Sale

Sold for

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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Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 822 250

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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