Lot 421
  • 421

Rembrandt Bugatti

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Jabiru
  • Inscribed with the signature R. Bugatti., stamped with the foundry mark Cire Perdue A. A. Hebrard and numbered (3)
  • Bronze
  • Height: 17 7/8 in.
  • 45.4 cm

Provenance

M. Gradis, Paris
Marcel Kapferer, Paris (confiscated by the ERR, Paris, February 2, 1944, inventory KPR8, and resituated November 26, 1946)
Private Collection (and sold: Christie's, London, December 6, 1983, lot 351)
Private Collection, London
Sladmore Gallery, London
Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired from the above in 2005)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010

Literature

Phillippe Dejean, Bugatti, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean, Paris, 1981, illustration of another cast p. 169
Jacques Chalom des Cordes & Véronique Fromanger des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, illustration of another cast p. 286
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, illustration of another cast p. 277
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti Sculpteur- Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 282, illustration of another cast pp. 210 & 325

Condition

Dark brown patina. Work is in very good condition. Surface is slightly dirty. Otherwise fine. Comes with a separate marble base.
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