Leopard on a cliff

Ligabue represents the ferocious feline in all its majesty in this work of great elegance and brightness, for once renouncing to deal with the themes of hunting and the struggle for survival. In an essential landscape, built with a few tones of brown and green, a leopard leaps across a canyon. The artist blocks the animal in the void as in a photographic snapshot. The slender figure, finished with a dark contour line, stands out against the lightly clouded blue sky with its tail raised, its legs stretched out and its muzzle stretched forward.