Rembrandt Bugatti

inscribed RBugatti, numbered 4 and with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue

height: 5 ⅞ in. 14.9 cm. 

M. Bair, France

(possibly) Louis Comfort Tiffany, New York (acquired circa 1913)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, 5 February 1981, lot 263

Cecile Singer, New York

Sotheby's, New York, 10 March 2005, lot 7 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Private Collection, New York

Sotheby's, New York, 15 June 2011, lot 51 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, United States

(with) Macklowe Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Rembrandt Bugatti, 1911, no. 74, another cast mentioned

André Salmon, “Rembrandt Bugatti,” Art et décoration, vol. XXXIV, July-December 1913, p. 158, illustration of another cast

Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, New York, 1982, p. 176, illustration of another cast

Jacques-Chalom Des Cordes and Véronique Fromanger Des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, p. 78, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Charles Bailly, Les Bugatti d’Alain Delon, 1988, no. 27, n.p., illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Sladmore Gallery, Rembrandt Bugatti: An Exhibition of Sculpture, 2004, p. 18, illustration in color of another cast

Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur: répertoire monographique, une trajectorie foundroyante, Paris, 2009, no. 58, p. 261, illustration in color of another cast (titled Petit Pélican au repos)

Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculptor: répertoire monographique, A Meteoric Rise, Paris, 2016, no. 53, p. 274, illustration in color of another cast