PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE FRENCH COLLECTION
Rembrandt Bugatti
GAZELLES APPRIVOISÉES, FACE À FACE
LOT SOLD.
343,500 EUR
Details & Cataloguing
Art Impressionniste et Moderne
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Paris
Paris
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
GAZELLES APPRIVOISÉES, FACE À FACE
signed R.Bugatti, dated 1905 and stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A.HEBRARD
bronze
9 x 17 7/8 in.
Conceived and cast in 1905 in an edition of 2.
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bronze
9 x 17 7/8 in.
Conceived and cast in 1905 in an edition of 2.
Provenance
Sale: Orsay, 21st June 1978
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, July 1991
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, July 1991
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti Répertoire monographique sculpteur, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Paris, 2016, no. 133, illustrated p. 302
Catalogue Note
At the beginning of the 20th century, Bugatti was twenty years old when he met Hebrard. Their first exhibition was an immediate success.
From the very beginning, Rembrandt Bugatti proved to be “a narrator of animal psychologies”, an artistic ethologist.
Poured from a lost wax cast worthy of Renaissance workshops and endowed with an exceptional patina, this group Gazelles apprivoisées, face à face, dated 1905, and created and desired in this size by Rembrandt Bugatti, is the perfect expression of the praise of Parisian critics who were unanimous on its subject: “[…] here is a young, really extraordinary sculptor […] better than any scholarship, the observation of eye and mind formed his exceptional talent […] he reveals here his marvelous sensibility, poetry joined with realism […] each one has its own features, its own particular physiognomy […] Rembrandt Bugatti is for amateurs a true revelation of impressionist sculpture […].”
Veronique Fromanger
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