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Lot Essay
''.......This was a maquette done for a life-size study, and was one of the Leopard Creek pieces (see footnote lot 5). It explores the singular power of the striding leopard emerging, as it were, from the landscape and disappearing into it. The base and composition are about that emergence and disappearance. My experience in the African bush is that these cats are seldom seen as silhouettes; they are almost always seen as shadowy forms merging and disappearing into the landscape. The whole composition is about the power of that stride, the weight onto the front foot, the intent, the focus of that animal.''