Bronze "Chat sauvage" signé Robert HAINARD
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Bronze sculpture “Wild Cat” signed by Robert HAINARD (1906–1999), number 6/15
“We had come to Slovenia driven by a vague hope of seeing wolves. I had accompanied a gamekeeper who wanted to count the deer. From a watchtower, I could see him opening the drawers of a small hut to offer them maize and turnips. A mad cockerel was circling him in the snow. These are capercaillies that have lost their fear of man. We caught some, took blood samples, and found they had an excess of male hormones. He flew off, perched a metre and a half away from me and fell asleep. The gamekeeper approached without disturbing him, but when he raised his camera, the capercaillie flew off to another tree, thirty metres away.
Whilst the capercaillie was circling the gamekeeper as he brought out food for the deer, a wildcat emerged from the hut. It seems that each of these huts has its own resident cat, which hunts mice there. And whilst I was sketching the landscape behind the sleeping cockerel, the cat returned. As we left without disturbing it, the idea occurred to me to keep an eye out for it the following day. I hadn’t realised that the hut was merely a façade, in front of a shelter lined with hay, inside which we had hidden, watching for stags and does nearby. The cat passed by again on the path close by. I went to look at its tracks; they were one centimetre wider than the ones I was familiar with.
I carved the cat as large as the piece of oak would allow, but smaller than life-size.” Extract from ROBERT HAINARD SCULPTURES, Éditions HESSE, p.98
“We had come to Slovenia driven by a vague hope of seeing wolves. I had accompanied a gamekeeper who wanted to count the deer. From a watchtower, I could see him opening the drawers of a small hut to offer them maize and turnips. A mad cockerel was circling him in the snow. These are capercaillies that have lost their fear of man. We caught some, took blood samples, and found they had an excess of male hormones. He flew off, perched a metre and a half away from me and fell asleep. The gamekeeper approached without disturbing him, but when he raised his camera, the capercaillie flew off to another tree, thirty metres away.
Whilst the capercaillie was circling the gamekeeper as he brought out food for the deer, a wildcat emerged from the hut. It seems that each of these huts has its own resident cat, which hunts mice there. And whilst I was sketching the landscape behind the sleeping cockerel, the cat returned. As we left without disturbing it, the idea occurred to me to keep an eye out for it the following day. I hadn’t realised that the hut was merely a façade, in front of a shelter lined with hay, inside which we had hidden, watching for stags and does nearby. The cat passed by again on the path close by. I went to look at its tracks; they were one centimetre wider than the ones I was familiar with.
I carved the cat as large as the piece of oak would allow, but smaller than life-size.” Extract from ROBERT HAINARD SCULPTURES, Éditions HESSE, p.98
Origin: Switzerland
Period: 20th century
Materials: Bronze
Dimensions: H 31 x 57 x 12 cm
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- Dimensions
- Ht 31 x 57 x 12 cm
- Matériaux
- Bronze
- Origine
- Suisse
- Époque
- 20ème siècle
Bronze sculpture “Wild Cat” signed by Robert HAINARD (1906–1999), number 6/15
“We had come to Slovenia driven by a vague hope of seeing wolves. I had accompanied a gamekeeper who wanted to count the deer. From a watchtower, I could see him opening the drawers of a small hut to offer them maize and turnips. A mad cockerel was circling him in the snow. These are capercaillies that have lost their fear of man. We caught some, took blood samples, and found they had an excess of male hormones. He flew off, perched a metre and a half away from me and fell asleep. The gamekeeper approached without disturbing him, but when he raised his camera, the capercaillie flew off to another tree, thirty metres away.
Whilst the capercaillie was circling the gamekeeper as he brought out food for the deer, a wildcat emerged from the hut. It seems that each of these huts has its own resident cat, which hunts mice there. And whilst I was sketching the landscape behind the sleeping cockerel, the cat returned. As we left without disturbing it, the idea occurred to me to keep an eye out for it the following day. I hadn’t realised that the hut was merely a façade, in front of a shelter lined with hay, inside which we had hidden, watching for stags and does nearby. The cat passed by again on the path close by. I went to look at its tracks; they were one centimetre wider than the ones I was familiar with.
I carved the cat as large as the piece of oak would allow, but smaller than life-size.” Extract from ROBERT HAINARD SCULPTURES, Éditions HESSE, p.98
“We had come to Slovenia driven by a vague hope of seeing wolves. I had accompanied a gamekeeper who wanted to count the deer. From a watchtower, I could see him opening the drawers of a small hut to offer them maize and turnips. A mad cockerel was circling him in the snow. These are capercaillies that have lost their fear of man. We caught some, took blood samples, and found they had an excess of male hormones. He flew off, perched a metre and a half away from me and fell asleep. The gamekeeper approached without disturbing him, but when he raised his camera, the capercaillie flew off to another tree, thirty metres away.
Whilst the capercaillie was circling the gamekeeper as he brought out food for the deer, a wildcat emerged from the hut. It seems that each of these huts has its own resident cat, which hunts mice there. And whilst I was sketching the landscape behind the sleeping cockerel, the cat returned. As we left without disturbing it, the idea occurred to me to keep an eye out for it the following day. I hadn’t realised that the hut was merely a façade, in front of a shelter lined with hay, inside which we had hidden, watching for stags and does nearby. The cat passed by again on the path close by. I went to look at its tracks; they were one centimetre wider than the ones I was familiar with.
I carved the cat as large as the piece of oak would allow, but smaller than life-size.” Extract from ROBERT HAINARD SCULPTURES, Éditions HESSE, p.98
Origin: Switzerland
Period: 20th century
Materials: Bronze
Dimensions: H 31 x 57 x 12 cm