Important Design

Important Design

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Bernard Laurent collection

Rembrandt Bugatti

Grande Girafe tête basse

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May 20, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 EUR

Lot Details

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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

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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