Rembrandt BUGATTI ( 1884 - 1916 )
CHIEN ANNANMITE or D'ANNAM (1905)
Raised tail
Bronze, H : 24.4 cm, L : 29.2 cm, D : 14.6 cm
Lifetime cast signed "R. Bugatti", old edition by
"A.A Hébrard cire perdue "(seal).
Circa 1905-1910
Provenance :
(red wax seal under the bronze for
"HM" ?)
Former Alain Lesieutre collection,
"Les Bugatti d'Alain Lesieutre" exhibition at Galerie Univers du Bronze 2002.
From an identified edition at 7 examples.
Our bronze, unnumbered and dated in the wax "905" for 1905, is
a good candidate to be one of the very first, if not the first.
Certificate of Véronique Fromanger.
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