Live Auction 19499The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection
David Shepherd (1931-2017)
Lot 54 The Legend of the West: Iconic Works from the T. Boone Pickens Collection

David Shepherd (1931-2017)

In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro-Amboseli

Closed28 October 2020

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David Shepherd (1931-2017)
In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro-Amboseli
signed '-David Shepherd-' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 40 in. (50.8 x 101.6 cm.)
Painted in 1999.

Richard Green Galleries, London.
Texas Art Gallery, Inc., Dallas, Texas, 3 November 2007, lot 73.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.

Specialist note

A passionate conservationist, David Shepherd dedicated his 60 year career to painting the world's most iconic and endangered animals and raising funds for conservation through the sale of his work. He is well known for his naturalistic renderings of elephants, tigers and the many other animals of Africa and Asia. The present painting encapsulates the artist's empathetic perspective towards the African landscape, depicting a herd of elephants in their natural habitat of Amboseli National Park in Kenya with Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance.