Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Jewellery and Fine Wine
Live Virtual Auction, 8 - 11 November 2020
Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art Part II
Lot Estimate
ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 1 593 200
About this Item
South African 1964-
Awakening Leopard (S42)
signed, dated 96, and numbered 5/8
bronze with a brown patina
height: 39cm; length: 167,5cm; width: 138cm
Notes
‘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
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 38.
Other lots that might interest you
Lesser Kestrel (S20)
ZAR 60 000 - 80 000
Flying Red-billed Teal Brace (S041)
ZAR 150 000 - 200 000
Standing Leopard III maquette (S334)
ZAR 350 000 - 500 000
Playing Cheetahs (S198)
ZAR 200 000 - 250 000
Sitting Cheetah II (S238)
ZAR 1 000 000 - 1 500 000
Stretching Leopard (S47)
ZAR 900 000 - 1 200 000
