Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery

Live Virtual Auction, 11 - 12 October 2021

Modern and Post-War Art

Sold for

ZAR 796 600
Lot 377
  • Dylan Lewis; Tree-Marking Leopard (S49)
  • Dylan Lewis; Tree-Marking Leopard (S49)
  • Dylan Lewis; Tree-Marking Leopard (S49)
  • Dylan Lewis; Tree-Marking Leopard (S49)
  • Dylan Lewis; Tree-Marking Leopard (S49)


Lot Estimate
ZAR 700 000 - 900 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 796 600

About this Item

South African 1964-
Tree-Marking Leopard (S49)

signed, dated 96, numbered API and S49 and impressed with the Jupiter Studio foundry mark

bronze with a brown patina
height: 119cm; length: 164cm; width: 54cm

Notes

Lot 377 and 378 are 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

Christie's, South Kensington, 11 June 2007, lot 16.

 

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 42.

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