Description

The Babysitter by Carl Brenders is framed as shown – on consignment from a private collector.  It will be obtained from the seller upon order. Seller is motivated to sell this piece at a great price.

We followed a lion pride a full day on a dream trip to the Okavango in Botswana
in Southern Africa. One female had given birth to two cubs. Females separate
from the pride until the cubs are about one month old. Then she joins the pride
again, or the pride joins her. When the pride found her in the bush, everybody
wanted to greet and sniff the newborn pride members. The mother didn’t want
the other cubs close to the new ones. Their games were too rough, the babies
too delicate and fragile. The males stayed away and watched the cubs, which
after playing like kids, settled down. This was the moment that inspired me
for this painting. I saw those males as real babysitters.

Babysitter – Lion – 2006 – Carl Brenders