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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Rembrandt Bugatti

Jabiru d’Afrique, le mâle

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Estimate

100,000 - 200,000 USD

Bid

90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Rembrandt Bugatti

1884 - 1916


Jabiru d’Afrique, le mâle

inscribed R. Bugatti., numbered (4) and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue 

bronze

height: 17 ¾ in. 45.1 cm.

Conceived circa 1912; this example cast by 1932 in a known edition of 6.


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

Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris 

Private Collection 

Christie's, Paris, 19 May 2005, lot 14 (consigned by the above)

Sladmore Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale)

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 420 (consigned by the above)

Sladmore Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner

Jacques Chalom Des Cordes and Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, catalogue raisonné, 1987, p. 288, illustration of another cast

Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard Dufour and Anna Lamparska-Rivet, Bugatti, les meubles, Bugatti, les sculptures, Bugatti, les autos, Paris, 1995, p. 110, illustrated in color

Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 284, p. 326, illustration in color of another cast

Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 288, p. 360, illustration in color of another cast (titled Jabiru mâle)