Lot 102: Robert F. Kuhn (1920-2007)

Robert F. Kuhn (1920-2007)
Reprieve from the Heat
signed 'Kuhn' (lower left)
acrylic on masonite
18 x 36 in. (45.7 x 91.4 cm.)

The artist.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

"One species generates more excitement and frantic shutter-snapping among the wildlife worshippers than any other. And that's the leopard. Maybe it's the fact that leopards are loners, night-stalkers who retreat to dark, shadowy places during the day. Maybe it's their amazing resiliency; how they can survive in a savage world of lions and hyenas and the like. Or perhaps we love the leopard simply because it's the most elegantly fashioned creature on earth--especially when reposed on a gnarly limb in the heat of an African day." (Bob Kuhn in Wild Harvest: The Animal Art of Bob Kuhn, 1997, p.61)