
Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Léopard au repos, ville de Paris, petit modèle
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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from a Prestigious European Collection
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Léopard au repos, ville de Paris, petit modèle
inscribed R. Bugatti, numbered (4) and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue
bronze
length: 20 ½ in. 52.1 cm.
Conceived circa 1911; this example cast in 1922.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.
Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris
M. Poirier (acquired from the above in 1922)
Sladmore Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie A. A. Hébrard, Rembrandt Bugatti Rétrospective, 1922
Exh. Cat., London, Abdy & Co Galleries, Animal Sculpture by R. Bugatti, London, 1929, no. 8
Kineton Parkes, "Rembrandt Bugatti: Modeller of Animals. Exhibition of Bronzes at the Abdy Galleries," Apollo, vol. 10, no. 59, 1 November 1929, p. 312, illustration of another cast
Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti, An Illustrated Catalogue and Biography, Ascot, 1979, no. 33, p. 39, illustration of another cast (titled Standing Leopard)
Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, Paris, 1981, p. 146, illustration of another cast
Jacques Chalom Des Cordes and Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, catalogue raisonné, 1987, p. 200, illustration of another cast (titled Jaguar marchant)
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, p. 233, illustration of another cast; p. 272
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 271, p. 322, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Château Saint-Jean, Rembrandt Bugatti, Molsheim, 2009
Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 274, p. 355-56, illustration in color of another cast
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