🐅 Monumental Tiger Leather Sculpture – Power and Craftsmanship 🐅
With its commanding presence and untamed spirit, this monumental tiger-leather sculpture is a masterpiece of craftsmanship, crafted from natural skin over a three-dimensional structure. Its imposing size and fierce realism evoke the grand zoological displays and curiosities of the 20th century, where nature was celebrated as art.
The figure depicts the tiger in an alert stance, its jaw slightly open and its eyes fixed on an unseen point, as if about to strike. The black stripes have been hand-painted over the vibrant orange hue of the fur, achieving a visual texture that honors the classic aesthetic of leather-wrapped animal sculptures, so prized by collectors and museums.
📏 Approximate measurements:
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Total width (from front to back): 150 cm
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Height: 63 cm
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Depth: 31 cm
- Production period 1970 - 1979
This piece is not decorative: it's theatrical . Its monumental scale and execution in natural leather make it a statement of power, ideal for spaces that celebrate the wild with elegance: galleries, museum display cases, private collections, or theatrical sets.
🕰️ Provenance: Private collection, Mexico 🎨 Technique: Sculptural assembly on natural leather, hand-painted
📚 Typological reference: Vintage sculptures of animals wrapped in leather, ca. mid-20th century
Every detail — from the curve of the claws to the tension in the back — has been worked with precision, achieving a piece that roars without sound, but with soul.
