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REMBRANDT BUGATTI(1884-1916)Léopard au repos, ville de Paris, petit modèle
2 April 2025, 16:00 BST
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REMBRANDT BUGATTI (1884-1916)
Léopard au repos, ville de Paris, petit modèle
signed 'R. Bugatti.', stamped with the foundry mark 'Cire perdue A.A. Hébrard' and numbered '(B.3)' (to the base)
bronze with black and nuanced brown patina
31.6 x 53cm (12 7/16 x 20 7/8in).
Conceived circa 1911, this bronze version cast by the A.A. Hébrard foundry in a numbered edition of 23.
signed 'R. Bugatti.', stamped with the foundry mark 'Cire perdue A.A. Hébrard' and numbered '(B.3)' (to the base)
bronze with black and nuanced brown patina
31.6 x 53cm (12 7/16 x 20 7/8in).
Conceived circa 1911, this bronze version cast by the A.A. Hébrard foundry in a numbered edition of 23.
Footnotes
The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Véronique Fromanger.
Provenance
Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris.
Ferdinand René Laederich Collection, France (acquired from the above).
Private collection (by descent from the above); their sale, Christie's, New York, 12 November 2019, lot 20M.
Private collection, France (acquired at the above sale).
Literature
K. Parkes, 'Rembrandt Bugatti: Modeller of Animals. Exhibition of Bronzes at the Abdy Galleries' in Apollo, Vol. X, November 1929 (another cast illustrated p. 312).
M. Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti (1885-1916), Ascot, 1979, no. 33 (another cast illustrated p. 39).
P. Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, Nancy, 1981 (another cast illustrated p. 146).
J. Chalom Des Cordes & V. Fromanger Des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987 (another cast illustrated p. 200; titled 'Jaguar marchant').
E. Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in sculpture, London, 2004 (another cast illustrated p. 175; titled 'Jaguar, at Rest').
P. Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs, Paris, 2005 (another cast illustrated p. 148).
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Répertoire monographique, Sculpteur, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Paris, 2009, no. 271 (another cast illustrated pp. 226 & 322).
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Répertoire monographique, Sculpteur, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Paris, 2016, no. 274 (another cast illustrated pp. 232 & 356).
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