Johannesburg Auction Week
Live Virtual Auction, 16 - 17 May 2022
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 800 000 - 1 000 000USD 45 377 - 56 721
About this Item
South African 1964-
Walking Leopard
signed, dated 94 and numbered 3/6
bronze with a brown patina
height: 60cm; length: 140cm; width: 28cm
Notes
'Dylan Lewis is Africa's most internationally renowned living figurative sculptor. Collectively Lewis' bronzes of felines form perhaps the most powerful commentary on nature and wilderness that has been made by any artist of this era. His cats are far more profound works of art than mere contemporary animalia bronzes. Indeed, they fully interrogate the lithe, almost boneless, grace of these apex predators - creatures that impart by their very presence a palpable tension to any true wilderness.'1
- https://www.everard-read.co.za/artist/DYLAN_ LEWIS/biography/