Lot 127
  • 127

Rembrandt Bugatti

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • RAPACE SERPENTAIRE, MÂLE
  • inscribed R. Bugatti., numbered A 3 and stamped with the foundry mark A. A. Hébrard Cire Perdue
  • bronze
  • height: 33cm., 13in.

Provenance

Galerie A. A. Hébrard, Paris

Literature

James Mackay, The Animaliers, London, 1973, illustration of another cast p. 96
Malcolm Haslam et al., The Amazing Bugattis, London, 1979, illustration of another cast p. 40
Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti, Ascot, 1979, no. 116, illustration of another cast p. 80
Philippe Dejean, Bugatti, New York, 1982, illustration of another cast p. 166
Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 161
Jacques Chalom Des Cordes & Véronique Fromanger Des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1987, illustration of another cast p. 291 
Edward Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, colour illustration of another cast  pp. 25 & 200

Condition

Dark green patina. Apart from a couple of pinhead-sized spots of patina loss to the wing, and a small 0.5cm. scratch to the base, this work is in very good condition.
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