Strauss & co - 5 March 2018, Cape Town

370 627 Dylan Lewis SOUTH AFRICAN 1964- Trans Figure III Maquette signed, numbered 7/12, impressed with the SCS foundry mark and S248 bronze with a green patina, mounted on a Perspex base height: 56cm including Perspex base R  –   “I generally prefer to express emotion in my sculpture through the gestures of the body as opposed to the face, so the nude allows me the entire surface of the human form to articulate this, through gesture and muscular tension. Also, to me, the naked human form represents our original ‘wild‘ state, which ties in with the theme of our relationship to wilderness”Dylan Lewis in Dylan Lewis an Untamed Force (2015): Page 222.