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This is a superb and substantial work of art executed in pyrography on Kudu (antelope) leather and mounted on board of Etosha Game Park in South West Africa about 1980. The art is highly detailed containing a scene of zebras and giraffes.

Signed label on verso: Hendrik Vey
Zebras and giraffes at water
Etosha Game Park, S.W.A
Pyrography on Kudu skin.

Dimensions: 35.75” x 15.5”.

This pyrography skillfully captures a gathering of these beautiful animals using hand incised using pyrographic techniques.

Provenance: Old western African Art collection.

History of the Pyrography:
py·rog·ra·phy is the art or technique of decorating wood or leather by burning a design on the surface with a heated metallic point. Pyrography was particular popular during the last quarter of the 19th century and first quarter of the 20th century and likely originated in France.

We will be offering more important high quality Folk Art Pyrographic works of art in the near future.
All works of art are guaranteed authentic and as described.

Schneible Fine Arts has been collecting and dealing in authentic American Self Taught Outsider Folk Art including these hand carved works of art, oil paintings, and pyrography works of art for more than thirty years. All works of art are guaranteed authentic and as described.