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Rembrandt Bugatti

Jabiru d’Afrique (ou Jabiru)

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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 200,000 USD

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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