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Rembrandt Bugatti

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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