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Rembrandt Bugatti "Storks at Rest" Bronze Sculpture
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Rembrandt Bugatti's striking bronze depicts a pair of elegant white storks. The male stork, positioned on the left, gently rests its head upon its soft breast while tucking one of its feet close to its body to conserve warmth. Meanwhile, the female stork on the right peacefully slumbers on the water's surface, her bill nestled among her feathers. While Rembrandt gained recognition in Paris, the rest of the Bugatti family, including his brother Ettore, the renowned sports car designer, established their business in Alsace. Storks hold a special place as the symbol of Alsace, where their abundant presence is seen as a harbinger of a prosperous year ahead. Every year, white storks embark on a migratory journey from Africa to Alsace, spending the warmer months in the region and faithfully returning to their familiar nests. These majestic birds can be spotted on rooftops, roadside poles, and church towers throughout every village, town, and city in Alsace.
Product Details:
Item #: YB-21340
Artist: Rembrandt Bugatti
Country: France
Circa: 1907
Dimensions: 11" height, 18" width, 6.25" depth
Materials: Bronze
Signed: Impressed R Bugatti Piecc unique Foundry Mark "Cire Perdue A. A. Hébrard"
Literature: A similar bronze is pictured in: Carlo - Rembrandt - Ettore - Jean Bugatti, by Philippe Dejean, Paris: Éditions du Regard, 1981, p. 166.
Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes:
An Alsatian saying says “Blessed is the home chosen by the stork to make its nest because the lightning will spare. “So the day and the night of St. John the Baptist June 24, 1007, a big storm of lightning fell on the Strasbourg Cathedral and occasioned great damage. This belief was so strong in 1007 that the workers who worked in the reconstruction of the Strasbourg Cathedral, partially destroyed by lightning, stopped their work for fear that lightning would strike again. They resumed only when a couple of storks took residence on the scaffolding.
- Creator:Rembrandt Bugatti (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)Depth: 6.25 in (15.88 cm)
- Style:Art Nouveau (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1907
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- Seller Location:New York, NY
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Rembrandt Bugatti
Fils du renommé décorateur Carlo Bugatti et frère cadet du constructeur automobile Ettore Bugatti, Rembrandt Bugatti est connu à la fois pour ses bronzes animaliers et sa fin prématurée. Né à Milan en 1884, il réalise sa première œuvre importante en 1901, une sculpture d’un quatuor de vaches qui révèle tôt ses préoccupations animalières. Le talent de Bugatti est rapidement reconnu et, jeune encore, il connaît le succès. Achim Anscheidt, designer en chef chez Bugatti Automobiles, dira qu’il avait une capacité singulière « pour saisir le mouvement des animaux dans ce qu’il a de plus expressif ». En 1904, il est pris sous contrat d’exclusivité par le fondeur Adrien-Aurélien Hébrard. La qualité et la patine du bronze qu’il reçoit ainsi demeurent très recherchées sur le marché de l’art. Fasciné par les animaux exotiques, il parcourt le Jardin zoologique d’Anvers pour trouver de nouveaux modèles. Bien au courant d’un regain d’intérêt pour les sujets animaliers au XIXe siècle dans les tableaux de Géricault et Delacroix, ainsi que des bronzes florentins de la Renaissance par ses compatriotes Giambologna et Verrocchio, Bugatti cherche à redéfinir le rôle de la bête dans l’art plastique. Tout se passe à merveille jusqu’à ce que la Grande Guerre éclate, où, s’engageant dans la Croix-Rouge, il devient tuberculeux. Touché par sa maladie et perturbé par les atrocités de la guerre, il se suicide en 1916 à l’âge tendre de 32 ans, interrompant tragiquement une vie si prometteuse. Les sculptures de Bugatti se trouvent au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, au Musée d’Orsay, au Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, au Hirschhorn Museum, Washington. Elles figurent aussi dans la collection privée d’Alain Delon. Dans la première décennie du XXe siècle, Bugatti participe à la Biennale de Venise. En 1911, il est officier de la Légion d’Honneur. Des expositions de ses œuvres ont lieu en 1904 et 1911 à la Galerie Hébrard, et en 1979 au Royal College of Art. En 2014, l’Alte Nationalgalerie de Berlin lui consacre une rétrospective posthume.
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