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Lot 12^*

REMBRANDT BUGATTI
(1884-1916)
Petite panthère assise

20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale

2 April 2025, 16:00 BST

London, New Bond Street

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REMBRANDT BUGATTI (1884-1916)

Petite panthère assise
signed 'R. Bugatti.', stamped with the foundry mark 'Cire perdue A.A. Hébrard' and numbered '(6)' (to the base)
bronze with polychromatic nuanced brown patinas
22 x 35.5cm (8 11/16 x 14in).
Conceived in 1912, this bronze version cast by the A.A. Hébrard foundry in a numbered edition of 10.

Footnotes

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Véronique Fromanger.

Provenance
Galerie A.A. Hébrard, Paris, no. 3768.
Hermann Ditisheim Collection, Paris (acquired from the above in 1924).
Alain Delon Collection, Paris (acquired by Spring 1990); his sale, Christie's, Paris, 22 November 2016, lot 8.
Private collection, France (acquired at the above sale).

Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Didier Imbert, 20 ans de Passion - Alain Delon, Spring 1990, no. 13.

Literature
P. Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, Nancy, 1981 (another cast illustrated p. 155).
J. Chalom des Cordes & V. Fromanger des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1987 (another cast illustrated pp. 46-47).
E. Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in sculpture, London, 2004 (another cast illustrated pp. 142-143; titled 'Leopard, Seated, Tail along base').
A. Daemgen & P. Demandt (eds.), Rembrandt Bugatti, The Sculptor 1884-1916, exh. cat., Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2014 (another cast illustrated p. 118).
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Répertoire monographique, Sculpteur, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Paris, 2009, no. 294 (another cast illustrated p. 328).
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Répertoire monographique, Sculpteur, Une trajectoire foudroyante, Paris, 2016, no. 298 (another cast illustrated p. 363).

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