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Rembrandt Bugatti
Lionne de Nubie
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Lot Details
Description
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Lionne de Nubie
inscribed R. Bugatti, stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A. HÉBRARD and numbered (4) on the base
bronze
length: 65 cm. 25 ⅝ in.
Conceived circa 1909-10; this example cast by the A.A. Hébrard Foundry by 1929. This work is number 4 from an edition of 7 known examples.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.
Galerie A.-A. Hébrard, Paris (acquired by 1929)
Private Collection, New York (acquired circa the 1960s)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Phillipe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, Paris, 1981, p. 160, another cast illustrated
Jacques-Chalom des Cordes and Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti: Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, pp. 246-247, another cast illustrated (titled Lionne d'Afrique and with incorrect dimensions)
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti: Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, p. 12, detail of another cast illustrated; p. 185 and dust jacket, another cast illustrated
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculpteur - Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 232, p. 309, another cast illustrated
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculpteur - Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 236, p. 343, another cast illustrated