25th May, 2023 10:30

The Scottish Contemporary Art Auction

 
  Lot 238
 

* PIP MCGARRY (BRITISH b. 1955)
LEOPARD

oil on canvas, signed
framed

image size 46cm x 92cm, overall size 69cm x 114cm

Note: Widely recognised as one of the world’s leading artists in his field, Pip McGarry has achieved an international reputation over 30 successful and highly eventful years. Sourcing imagery for his extraordinary animal portraits on location he transports us effortlessly to the plains, savannas and wilderness of Africa and brings us face to face with a host of majestic subjects. Pip has become a world renowned broadcaster, campaigner and educator, and has been a judge for the BBC ‘Wildlife Artist of the Year’ four times, with the prize for the winning artists being a safari guided by Pip himself; he has led over 30 expeditions to southern and eastern Africa for wildlife artist and photographers. Pip devised a Meridian TV series, ‘A Brush with the Wild’, teaching celebrities to paint wildlife; he co-hosted the series with Anneka Rice, filming on location in Kenya and at Marwell Zoological Park. Pip was the founder and Chairman of the Marwell International Wildlife Art Society, the largest of its kind in Europe, and he has been the Artist in Residence at Marwell Zoological Park in Hampshire since January 1999. Over one hundred of Pip’s paintings have been successfully auctioned by major national and international auction houses such as Christies and Sothebys, both in the UK and overseas. In May 2008, his painting ‘Flight Of The Zebras’ sold for a record £29,300 (currently approximately $37,000) at Christie's of London. Several of Pip’s paintings have been presented to His Royal Highness the Sultan of Oman and now hang in his private collection. Pip McGarry has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for various wildlife causes, including his own conservation charity, ‘WildSave’.

 

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Sold for £1,800
Estimated at £2,000 - £4,000


 
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