
Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Jabiru d’Afrique (ou Jabiru)
Auction Closed
May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Jabiru d’Afrique (ou Jabiru)
inscribed R. Bugatti., numbered (3) and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue
bronze
height: 17 ⅞ in. 45.4 cm.
Conceived circa 1911-12; this example cast in a known edition of 11.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.
Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris
Marcel Kapferer, Paris (confiscated by the ERR in Paris on 2 February 1944, inventory KPR8, and restituted 26 November 1946)
Private Collection
Christie's, London, 6 December 1983, lot 351 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, London
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 421 (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 1909)
Jacques Chalom Des Cordes and Victoria Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, p. 286, 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, illustration in color of another cast
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, p. 277, illustration of another cast
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 282, p. 325, illustration in color of another cast
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 286, p. 360, illustration in color of another cast