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Rembrandt Bugatti "Ours Brun Marchant, La Patte Droite en Avant" Bronze Sculptur

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Bugatti’s "Ours Brun Marchant, La Patte Droite en Avant" also known as “Brown Bear Walking,” depicts a bear mid step in a relaxed position, on all fours, as if calmly surveying its surroundings. Bugatti has managed to capture the bear's thick fur, with detailed texturing, capturing the natural look and feel of its coat. The bear has an intense, focused gaze. The overall form is robust and solid, embodying the bear's natural power and majesty. As the brown bear paces within its small enclosure, Rembrandt Bugatti captures the rippling fur of its coat with streaks of plasticine. Its hind leg juts forward, part of a striking pattern of opposing movements. By the time Bugatti visited the Antwerp zoo in 1909, brown bears were housed in three cave-like dens, covered in ivy. The enclosure was meant to replicate Italian grottoes as they were depicted in paintings of the Romantic movement. Product Details: Item #: YB-21614 Artist: Rembrandt Bugatti Country: France Circa: 1910 Dimensions: 8" height, 12.25" width, 4.25" depth. Materials: Patinated Bronze Signed: R. Bugatti and stamped with foundry mark Cire Perdue AA Hébrard Literature: V. Fromanger, "Rembrandt Bugatti, sculpteur, une trajectoire foudroyante, répertoire monographique, les éditions de l'amateur", Paris, 2016, p. 179 pour le plâtre, p. 344-345, n. 239. Macklowe Gallery Curator's Notes: Bears had long fascinated Bugatti, with one of his earliest sculptures depicting a bear handler. The Russian artist Ivan Shishkin helped popularize brown bears as a subject with his widely circulated work, Morning in a Pine Forest (1889), which appeared on postcards. Fifteen referenced casts of this model are known to exist, most of them numbered.
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    Height: 8 in (20.32 cm)Width: 12.25 in (31.12 cm)Depth: 4.25 in (10.8 cm)
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    1910
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    New York, NY
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    Seller: YB-216141stDibs: LU885444689832

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