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REMBRANDT BUGATTI Sculptor, a lightning path, Repertoire monographique, is a hardcover book of 392 full color pages with 400 illustrations that presents the bronze work of the sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti (1884 - 1916).
Rembrandt Bugatti was born October 16th, 1884 in Milan, Italy. He is the youngest son of the architect and designer Carlo Bugatti (designer and manufacturer of extraordinary furniture) brother of Dejanice Bugatti car manufacturer Ettore Bugatti, Jean Bugatti's uncle. Its name was chosen by his godfather Giovanni Segantini.
In 1903, aged 19, Rembrandt moved to Paris, the city whose influence attracts all modern artists of the early twentieth century. He joined the French editor and founder of art Adrien Aurélien Hébrard. Known for his animal sculptures - he works at the Antwerp zoo or the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. he also fashioned his contemporaries in clay, men and women, with his own sensitivity... stylized forms, strong and of a great modernity. Power and modernity of cubist forms, his works early announced what will become the Art-Deco.
Disappeared at thirty-one years, Rembrandt Bugatti worked less than fifteen years... Today we realize the importance of his work: hard worker, he left more than 300 sculptures. and the greatest collectors are seeking his works with passion.

This superb monograph presents all 300 works of the artist.
With this book, the author establishes a new catalog raisonne, corrected and complete. Similarly, the iconography has been revised and enriched with new documents.

Contents:

• Preface by Philipp Demandt
• The material Paraclete by Michel Onfray
• Who are Rembrandt Bugatti's "fathers"?
• 1884 - 1902: Milan and the pre-futurist period
• Paris and the Jardin des Plantes
• Rembrandt Bugatti a modeller and mould-maker
• Paris, a leading light in the modern art trade
• A.A. Hébrard et Cie (1902 - ca.1934)
• 1903 - 1908: From Paris to Antwerp: a migratory bird on the wing
• 1909 - 1911: Rembrandt Bugatti devots imself to preparing for important exhibitions
• 1912 - 1916: The innovation of the avant-garde is interruped by the Great War
• Rembrandt Bugatti dies on 8 January 1916
• Notes
• Chronological list of editionned works
• Repertoire des editions Rembrandt Bugatti
• Collections and Exhibitions
• Bibliography

The English texts are written by the expert Véronique Fromanger.