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Rembrandt Bugatti

Panthère marchant, patte arrière levée

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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

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300,000 - 500,000 USD

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Property from a Prestigious European Collection

Rembrandt Bugatti 

1884 - 1916


Panthère marchant, patte arrière levée

inscribed RBugatti, numbered (D.2) and stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue

bronze

length: 21 ⅛ in. 53.5 cm.

Conceived circa 1904; this example cast by 1930.


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

Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris

Sir Robert Abdy, London (acquired from the above in 1930)

Sladmore Gallery, London

Private Collection, Europe

Christie's, Paris, 25 November, 2013, lot 7

Sladmore Gallery, London

Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., London, Abdy & Co Galleries, Animal Sculpture by R. Bugatti, 1929, no. 7

Exh. Cat., London, Royal College of Art, The Amazing Bugattis, 1979

Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, Paris, 1981, p. 156, illustration of another cast

Jacques Chalom Des Cordes and Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, p. 44-45

Exh. Cat., Ferrara, Galleria Civica d'Arte moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti, I Bugatti, 1988, no. 5, p. 83, illustration in color of another cast

Bernard Lamarche-Vadel, Bernard Dufour and Anna Lamparska-Rivet, Bugatti, les meubles, Bugatti, les sculptures, Bugatti, les autos, Paris, 1995, p. 189, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., London, Sladmore Gallery, Rembrandt Bugatti, An Exhibition of Twenty Bronze Sculptures, 1998, no. 3, p. 16, illustration in color of another cast

Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, pp. 17, 170-71 and 266, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Southbank, National Gallery of Victoria, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, 2009, no. 15, pp. 62-63, illustrations of another cast

Exh. Cat., The Hague, Beelden aan Zee, From Barye to Bugatti: Les Animaliers, 2011, no. 52, p. 38, illustration in color of another cast

Exh. Cat., Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Rembrandt Bugatti. The Sculptor 1884-1916, 2014, p. 116-17

Véronique Fromanger, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 122, pp. 51, 88 and 296, illustration in color of another cast; p. 297