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Property from an Eminent British Collection

Rembrandt Bugatti

Buffle d’Asie ‘Gayal’

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June 25, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Bid

130,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Rembrandt Bugatti

1884 - 1916


Buffle d’Asie ‘Gayal’

inscribed R. Bugatti, dated Anvers 1910, titled and with the foundry stamp CIRE PERDUE A.A. HEBRARD

bronze

length: 57.5 cm. 22⅝ in.

Conceived in 1909-10; this example cast by Hébrard foundry, Paris. This work is from an edition of 2. 


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

Galerie A.A. Hébrard 

Christie’s, London, 3 December 1996, lot 131 

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Antwerp, Société Royale de Zoologie, Rembrandt Bugatti, 1910 

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Rembrandt Bugatti Rétrospective, 1913 

Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Exposition des dernières œuvres de Rembrandt Bugatti, 1884-1915, 1922 

Véronique Fromanger, A Meteoric Rise, Rembrandt Bugatti sculptor, repertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 262, p. 352, the present cast illustrated