Lot Essay
Fromanger states in her monograph on the sculptor that "today only one cast in bronze of this model is known to exist".
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'VACHE', A UNIQUE SCULPTURE, 1901
Details
REMBRANDT BUGATTI (1885-1916)
'VACHE', A UNIQUE SCULPTURE, 1901
patinated bronze, on a black onyx base
9 in. (23 cm.) high; 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) long
signed in the cast Bugatti 1901
'VACHE', A UNIQUE SCULPTURE, 1901
patinated bronze, on a black onyx base
9 in. (23 cm.) high; 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) long
signed in the cast Bugatti 1901
Literature
Similar example illustrated:
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti Sculpteur Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2009, p. 25 (for a period photograph showing the plaster of the model in the workshop of the artist, Milan, circa 1905) and p. 254, ref. 7.
V. Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti Sculpteur Répertoire Monographique, Paris, 2009, p. 25 (for a period photograph showing the plaster of the model in the workshop of the artist, Milan, circa 1905) and p. 254, ref. 7.
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