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

Everard Read, Cape Town, 2007.

Private Collection.

Literature

Laura Twiggs (2011) Dylan Lewis: Animal Bronzes 1989-2005: The Collector’s Guide, Cape Town: Pardus, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on page 100.

Deborah Corner (1997) Dylan Lewis: The Leopard, Cape Town: Creda Press, another cast from the edition illustrated in colour on page 16.