Sleeping Lion, Jacksonville Zoo, Florida

December 17, 1986, printed 1987

Volker Seding

Associated Names
Volker Seding

Artist, Canadian, 1943 - 2007

This is a photograph of a lion in an enclosure. The lion is lying on a wooden platform made of logs. The walls of the enclosure are concrete with a rough texture, colored in shades of gray and brown. There are three closed metal doors integrated into the walls. The floor is bare concrete with wear and discoloration.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Simon Daro Dawidowicz, Miami Beach, FL; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN), 1988; acquired by NGA, 2015.

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Inscriptions

signed by artist on mount, lower right below image in graphite: Seding-86; lower left below image: 4/50; lower center below image: SLEEPING LION, JACKSONVILLE ZOO, FLORIDA; on verso of mount, lower center stamped in black ink: © VOLKER SEDING / TITLE / NEGATIVE / PRINTED / EDITION / PRINT No.; graphite annotations: SLEEPING LION / 17 DEC. 1986 / 23 JANUARY 1987 / 50 / 4; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right in graphite: 1988.5.15

Wikidata ID

Q64171585

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