Important Design
Important Design
Bernard Laurent collection
Grande Girafe tête basse
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May 20, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Rembrandt Bugatti
Grande Girafe tête basse
Designed circa 1909-1910
Patinated bronze
Signed R.BUGATTI, numbered 5 and with the foundry mark A.-A. HEBRARD. Cire Perdue on the terrace
67 x 65 x 20 cm ; 26 ⅜ x 25 ⅝ x 7 ⅞ in.
Comte Lacour de Montalba collection, Carcassonne, 1930
(...)
Bernard Laurent collection, Villefranche-sur-Mer, acquired in 1980
Thence by descent to the present owner
Prima esposizione internazionale d'Arte della Secessione, exhibition catalogue, March - June 1913, Rome, the model referenced under n° 22, p.33
Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti (1885-1916): An Illustrated Catalogue and Biography, London, 1979, the model referenced under n° 82, p. 64
Philippe Dejean, Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean Bugatti, New York, 1982, p. 190-191
Jacques Chalom des Cordes & Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, p. 250-51
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, p. 20
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculpteur - Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2009, the model referenced under n° 225, p. 182, 184 and 307
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculpteur - Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2025, the model referenced under n° 229, p. 189, p. 189 and 340
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