Rembrandt Bugatti

Femme à genoux (Le réveil)

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June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

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100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Switzerland

Rembrandt Bugatti

1884 - 1916

Femme à genoux (Le réveil)

inscribed RBugatti, numbered M and stamped with the foundry mark CIRE PERDUE A.A. HÉBRARD

bronze

height (including base): 34.7 cm., 13⅝in.

Conceived and cast in bronze circa 1907 in a numbered edition of 7 plus 1 reference model.

This work is recorded in the archives of the Rembrandt Bugatti Conservatoire, Paris.

Ettore Bugatti

Lidia Bugatti, Comtesse de Boigne (by descent from the above)

Sale: Loudmer, Paris, 21st June 1993, lot 24

Private Collection, Switzerland

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 2000)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti, London, 1979, no. 136, marble illustrated p. 91
Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean-Bugatti, New York, 1982, another cast illustrated p. 227
Véronique Fromanger & Jacques-Chalom Des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti. Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, illustrated in colour pp. 164-165
Edward Horsewell, Rembrandt Bugatti, Life in Sculpture, London, 2004, illustrated in colour p. 141
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti. Sculpteur. Répertoire monographique, 2010, no. 168, illustrated in colour p. 289
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti. Sculptor. Répertoire monographique. A Meteoric Rise, Paris, 2016, no. 168, marble illustrated in colour p. 315