Rembrandt Bugatti

Jaguar accroupi, petit modèle

Auction Closed

March 3, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Three Bronzes from an Important Private Collection

Rembrandt Bugatti

1884 - 1916

Jaguar accroupi, petit modèle

inscribed RBugatti, numbered (47) and stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A. HÉBRARD

bronze with original marble base

length: 19.6cm., 7¾in.

length (including base): 21.2cm., 8⅜in.

Conceived circa 1908 and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 51.

This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.

Private Collection, Paris (sold: Fauve, Paris, 10th March 2016, lot 35)
Univers du Bronze, Paris (purchased at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Philippe Dejean, Bugatti: Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean, New York, 1982, n.n., illustration of another cast p. 343
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 220, colour illustration of another cast p. 338