Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Mid-Century Modern the door & base inlaid

the door & base inlaid with satinwood stringing

The chest of a rare & unusual size

which sought to capture the drama and intensity of warfare

the colour is applied with quick brushstrokes and occasionally with impasto techniques and the images are additionally abstracted by the use of Graffiti elements

Antique Cast Bronze Elephant Hunt Scene with Lion Antonio Amorgasti Belgium 1925 Mid-Century Modern the door & base inlaidA large antique Animalier bronze sculpture group: lion hunting with elephants by Antonio Amorgasti 1880 1942, Belgium, titled "Mahout", circa 1925. The term "Mahout" is a Hindu word for an elephant driver or elephant keeper. This large cast bronze group depicts an elephant with her infant below, atop the elephant is her driver seated on a lion's pelt with the driver's ankus (a tool with a long handle & sharp metal point used by a Mahout to direct the