Strauss & co - 18 March 2019, Cape Town

220 608 Dylan Lewis SOUTH AFRICAN 1964– Sleeping Oriental Cat II 1998 signed and numbered 7/15 bronze, mounted on a crystal base height: 36 cm excluding base; base 10,5 cm R  –   LITERATURE Laura Twiggs (ed.) (2006) Forces of Nature: The Sculpture of Dylan Lewis , Cape Town: Pardus Publishing. Another example from the edition is illustrated in colour, catalogue number 53. ‘The only signifier strong and mysterious enough to carry the weight of the earth, the lightness of air and the movement of natural forces that shape landscape, was the cat.’- Dylan Lewis. Ibid ., unpaginated. 609 Deborah Bell SOUTH AFRICAN 1957– Crying Pot 1998 terracotta, kiln and pit fired, fat, wax, wire and charcoal height: 71 cm R  –   LITERATURE cf. Pippa Stein (2004) Deborah Bell , Johannesburg: David Krut Publishing. Similar examples are illustrated on pages 64 and 65. ‘I started working with the image of the crying pot during the time that the Truth and Reconciliation hearings had just begun, and were being aired on television. Apart from being struck by the atrocities that were being revealed, I was overwhelmed by the grief of the friends and the families of the victims – especially the women’. Ibid .