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Rembrandt Bugatti

Taureau zébu

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Rembrandt Bugatti

1884 - 1916


Taureau zébu

inscribed RBugatti, numbered (1) and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue

bronze

length: 20 ⅜ in. 51.8 cm.

Conceived circa 1904 and cast before 1934; this work is unique.


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

Please note the casting date for this work has been updated.

Galerie A. A. Hébrard, Paris (acquired by 1922)

Galerie Samy Chalom, Paris (acquired by 1967)

Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1986, lot 153

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Galerie Anglaise, Geneva

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1987)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti, London, 1979, no. 92, p. 69, illustrated

Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean-Bugatti, New York, 1982, p. 176, illustrated

Véronique Fromanger and Jacques-Chalom Des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, p. 28, illustrated

Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculpteur, Répertoire monographique, 2010, no. 67, p. 262, illustrated in color

Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculptor, Répertoire monographique, A Meteoric Rise, Paris, 2016, no. 71, p. 278, illustrated in color

Lausanne, Galerie Paul Vallotton, Rembrandt Bugatti, 1965

Paris, Galerie Samy Chalom, Samy Chalom présente soixante bronzes de Rembrandt Bugatti, 1967

Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d'automne, François Pompon, Rembrandt Bugatti, 1973

Paris, Galerie Paul Ambroise, Un siècle de bronze animaliers, 1975