Strauss & co - 8 - 11 November 2020

154 ARTIST FOCUS: DYLAN LEWIS (1964– T O P L A C E A B I D C L I C K O N T H E R E D L O T N U M B E R 928 Dylan Lewis SOUTH AFRICAN 1964– Awakening Leopard (S42) signed, dated 96 and numbered 5/8 bronze with a brown patina height: 39 cm R900 000 – 1 200 000 LITERATURE Laura Twiggs (ed) (2011) Dylan Lewis: Animal Bronzes 1989–2005: The Collectors’ Guide , Cape Town: Pardus, another cast from the edition illustrated on page 38. ‘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