
Property from a Prestigious European Collection
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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
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140,000 - 180,000 USD
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Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
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inscribed R. Bugatti., numbered (5) and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue
bronze
length: 15 in. 38 cm.
Conceived circa 1907; this example cast by 1934.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.
Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris (acquired by 1934)
Macklowe Gallery, Ltd., New York (acquired in 1979 and until at least 1994)
Bonhams, Paris, 7 February 2013, lot 32
Sladmore Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner
New York, Macklowe Gallery, Ltd., 1979
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie A.A. Hébrard, 1908, no. 18
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Paul Ambroise, Un Siècle de bronzes animaliers, 1975, no. 54, illustration of another cast
Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti, An Illustrated Catalogue and Biography, Ascot, 1979, no. 98, p. 72, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., New York, Wildenstein & Company, Rembrandt Bugatti Exhibition of Sculpture, 1986
Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard Dufour and Anna Lamparska-Rivet, Bugatti, les meubles, Bugatti, les sculptures, Bugatti, les autos, Paris, 1995, p. 188, illustration in color of another cast
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 189, p. 295, illustration of another cast
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 193, pp. 324-25, illustration in color of another cast
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