Strauss & co - 8 June 2019, Johannesburg

237 Danie de Jager SOUTH AFRICAN 1936–2003 Shawu signed, dated 1989, numbered 73/100 and inscribed with the animal’s name, height, weight and tusk dimensions bronze on a marble base height: 43 cm, excluding base; length: 61 cm; width: 34 cm R150 000 – 200 000 ITEM NOTES Shawu was one of the Magnificent Seven, a group of elephant bulls in the Kruger National Park with impressively large tusks. Shawu’s tusks are the longest in the Park’s records and they can still be seen in the Elephant Hall museum at Letaba camp. The life-size version of this sculpture was made for the Palace of the Lost City, Sun City.