Sladmore: Life in Bronze
Sladmore: Life in Bronze
Rembrandt Bugatti
Petit Léopard assis, la queue placée en avant
Lot Closed
April 6, 02:35 PM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Petit Léopard assis, la queue placée en avant
inscribed R. Bugatti, numbered (6) and stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A. HÉBRARD
bronze, medium brown patina with lighter brown undertones
height (not including base): 19cm., 7in.
height (including base): 23.5cm, 9¼in.
Conceived circa 1912 and cast in bronze by 1930 in an edition of 7.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.
Galerie A.A. Hébrard (acquired by 1934)
Sale: Aguttes, Lyon, 12th June 2014, lot 476
Private Collection, France
Sladmore Gallery, London (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above
Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti. An Illustrated Catalogue and Biography, London, 1979, no. 34, another cast illustrated p. 39
Phillippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, Paris, 1981, another cast illustrated p. 155
Pierre Kjellberg, The Bronzes of the Nineteenth Century: Dictionary of Sculptors, Atglen, 1994, p.148
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti. Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, another cast illustrated in colour p. 106
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti. Sculpteur. Répertoire monographique. Une trajectoire foudroyante, Paris, 2009, no. 299, another cast illustrated p. 330
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti. Sculptor. Répertoire monographique. A Meteoric Rise, Paris, 2016, no. 303, another cast illustrated in colour p. 365