Cheetah

Cheetah is a 2008 acrylic on board measuring 61 × 81.5 cm, painted during the same early period in which Viviers was developing his confident, expressive approach to animal portraiture. The cheetah — nature's fastest land animal — is rendered with an energy that feels appropriate to the subject: alert, precise, and intensely focused. The work demonstrates Viviers' early command of animal anatomy and his ability to translate that understanding into emotionally resonant imagery. Available for acquisition.