CAST FROM THE MODEL BY REMBRANDT BUGATTI, CIRCA 1911

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'PETIT LEOPARD MARCHANT', A BRONZE STUDY
CAST FROM THE MODEL BY REMBRANDT BUGATTI, CIRCA 1911
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) high, 19 in. (48 cm.) length including tail
signed in the maquette R. Bugatti and stamped CIRE PERDUE A.A. HÉBRARD

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Subsequent to the preparation of this catalogue entry, additional unpublished information from the Bugatti archives has kindly been made available by Véronique Fromanger Des Cordes:
It has been confirmed that this model was cast in an edition limited to 10 examples.
The original plaster maquette for this study is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome, the gift of Adrien-A. Hébrard in 1924.

Lot Essay

The original plaster maquette for this study is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art in Rome, donated by Adrien-A. Hébrard in 1924. The edition of this model was limited, although the precise number of examples is not recorded.
Model exhibited Galerie Adrien-A. Hébrard, Paris, 1911.
cf. Jacques-Chalon and Véronique Fromanger Des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti Catalogue Raisonné, 1987, p. 272.

We are grateful to Véronique Fromanger Des Cordes for her assistance in cataloguing this and the following three lots.

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