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Rembrandt BUGATTI
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Rembrandt BUGATTI
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Estimate €200,000 - €300,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Rembrandt BUGATTI
Tamed gazelles, face to face – circa 1905
Bronze with a nuanced brown patina
Signed, numbered and bearing the foundry’s stamp on the pedestal: “R BUGATTI / 3 / CIRE/PERDUE/A.A HEBRARD”
Model cast circa 1905
Original green marble plinth
22.7 x 45.3 x 10.4 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Saint-Étienne
Auction in Saint-Étienne, Hôtel des ventes du Marais, 25 April 2019, lot 1
Private collection, Belgium
Bibliography: J.-C. des Cordes and V. Fromanger des Cordes, *Rembrandt Bugatti, Catalogue raisonné*, Les Éditions de l’amateur, Paris, 1987, reproduced in colour on pp. 110–111 (the silver model and a detail of a bronze model (another example) entitled *Two Tamed Antelopes, The Caress*)
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti: Sculptor, Monographic Catalogue, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, Paris, 2009, no. 119, reproduced in colour on pp. 274 (another example), p. 141 (detail of the silver model)
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti: Sculptor, Monographic Catalogue, Les Éditions de l’Amateur, Paris, 2016, no. 133, p. 301, reproduced in colour on p. 302 (another example)
A certificate from Ms Véronique Fromanger will be provided to the buyer.
Rembrandt BUGATTI
22.7 x 45.3 x 10.4 cm
See original version (French)
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