Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Rembrandt Bugatti
Jabiru d’Afrique, la femelle
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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Jabiru d’Afrique, la femelle
inscribed R. Bugatti, numbered (7) and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue
bronze
height: 13 ⅞ in. 35.2 cm.
Conceived circa 1912; this example cast by 1932 in a known edition of 9.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.
Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris
Roberto Polo
Ader-Tajan, Paris, 7 November 1991, lot 84 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Paris
Tajan, Paris, 19 November 2003, lot 86 (consigned by the above)
Sladmore Gallery, London
Private Collection, Connecticut (acquired from the above in 2005)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2010)
Sotheby's, New York, 7 November, 2013, lot 422 (consigned by the above)
Sladmore Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner
Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, Paris, 1981, p. 169, illustration of another cast
(titled Stork and dated 1907)
Jacques Chalom Des Cordes and Victoria Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, catalogue raisonné, Paris, p. 287, illustration of another cast
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, pp. 30-31, illustration in color of another cast (titled Walking Stork)
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 285, p. 326, illustration in color of another cast
Exh. Cat., The Hague, Beelden aan Zee, From Barye to Bugatti: Les Animaliers, 2011, no. 56, p. 32, illustration in color of another cast
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 289, pp. 360-61, illustration in color of another cast