Property from a Private Parisian Collection
Rembrandt Bugatti
Tigre royal
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1,200,000 - 1,500,000 EUR
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Property from a Private Parisian Collection
Rembrandt Bugatti
1884 - 1916
Tigre royal
signed R. Bugatti, stamped with the foundry mark A.A. Hébrard Cire Perdue and numbered (9)
bronze
41,8 x 73,5 x 19,5 cm; 16½ x 29 x 7⅝ in.
Conceived circa 1913-1914, this version cast in bronze between 1922 and 1927 by the foundry Hébrard. This work is number 9 from an edition of 17.
This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Répertoire, Paris.
Galerie A.A Hébrard, Paris
Raymond Philippe, Neuilly-sur-Seine (acquired from the above in 1927)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie A-A. Hébrard, Exposition des dernières œuvres de Rembrandt Bugatti 1884-1916, 1922
Exh. Cat., London, Abdy & Co, Exhibition of Animal sculpture by R. Bugatti, 1929, no. 19, another version (titled Nubian Lion)
Exh. Cat., Antwerp, Société Royale de Zoologie, Rembrandt Bugatti Exposition rétrospective, 1885-1916, 1955, no. 25, another version (titled Tigre marchant)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Samy Chalom, Samy Chalom présente soixante bronzes de Rembrandt Bugatti, 1967, no. 43, another version (titled Tigre)
Exh. Cat., Brussels, Galerie Le Brun et Maison L'Ecuyer, Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur animalier, 1968
Exh. Cat., Paris, Salon d'Automne, 1973, no. 19, another version (titled Tigre marchant)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Galerie Paul Ambroise, Un siècle de bronzes animaliers, 1975, no. 48, another version (titled Tigre en marche)
Exh. Cat., London, Royal College of Arts, The amazing Bugattis, 1979, another version
Philippe Dejean, Carlo, Rembrandt, Ettore, Jean Bugatti, Paris, 1981, pp. 146-147, another version (titled Grand Tigre stylisé)
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Bugatti, 1983, another version
Exh. Cat., New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Rembrandt Bugatti, Private collections, 1986, no. 74, another version (titled Le Grand Tigre)
Jacques Chalom des Cordes and Véronique Fromanger des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, pp. 306-307, another version (titled Grand tigre royal)
Exh. Cat., London, Sladmore Gallery, Rembrandt Bugatti, An exhibition of Sculpture, 1988, no. 27, another version
Exh. Cat., Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bugatti, 1999, no. 44, another version (titled Great royal tiger)
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, pp. 175, 188-189 and 268, another version
Exh. Cat., Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Bugatti: Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean, 2009, no. 28, another version (titled Great royal tiger)
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, Rembrandt Bugatti Der Bildhauer, 1884-1916, 2014, p. 140, another version (titled Grand tigre royal)
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti une trajectoire foudroyante, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2016, no. 316, illustrated on the frontispiece and pp. 229-230 and 370, another version