At all times, panthers have been a particular spur to the imagination. Bugatti used to spend time every day at the menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes to see the panthers which he considered as his “life and work companions”. He would then talk at length with the healers who tended the animals, in a mixture of French and Italian.<\/p>\n
Bugatti had been permitted to visit the big cats, which had got used to the sculptor’s presence, outside the opening hours of the menagerie. These privileged moments of observation and approach gave him a thorough knowledge of their habits and behaviour. Bugatti thereby captured the big cats energy, dynamism and power and restored these perceptions in his sculptures.<\/p>\n
This sculpture was acquired directly from the founder A.A. H\u00e9brard, in October 1928, at a cost of 8000 francs. (The invoice is in our possession).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bronze with a brown green black patina. Signed \u00ab R. Bugatti \u00bb.
\nCast by H\u00e9brard, numbered \u00ab 10 \u00bb, realized by Albino Palazzolo
\nBears the stamp \u00ab Cire perdue A.A H\u00e9brard \u00bb.
\nCirca before 1928.
\nBronze edition of the sculpture listed in 10 numbered copies.<\/p>\n
Height: 6.88\u2033
\nWidth: 14.76\u2033
\nDepth: 4.92\u2033<\/p>\n
Provenance: Sold by the founder A. A H\u00e9brard to M. Georges Lehmann on October 26 1928. SOLD<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5654,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[312,313],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5664","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-chefs-doeuvre-vendu-en","7":"product_cat-rembrandt-bugatti-en","8":"description-off","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galerienicolasbourriaud.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLiterature: V\u00e9ronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti sculpteur<\/em>, Les Editions de l\u2019Amateur, Paris, 2016, reproduced page 340 under the number 231.
\nTemporary exhibitions: 1913 et 1922 \u00ab Rembrandt Bugatti, R\u00e9trospective \u00bb, Galerie A.-A H\u00e9brard, Paris ; 1978, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, tirage (8), collection of Mr et Mrs Joseph Tanenbaum, Toronto.<\/p>\n