Alain Delon sells sculptures from his collection
ARTinvestment.RU   27 октября 2016

13 sculptures by Rembrandt Bugatti from the collection of actor Alain Delon auctioned at Christie's in Paris on 22 November

Home sex-символ French cinema of the twentieth century, and now has 80-летний Alain Delon for about 20 years of his life (in 1970-80-х) enthusiastically collected the works of Italian sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti (1884-1916).

the Sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti was born in the family of the famous designer of furniture and jewellery in the art Nouveau Carlo Bugatti. Together with his older brother Ettore was a classically-trained sculptor at the Academy of fine arts in Milan. Then the road the brothers split. Ettore became interested in modeling cars and founded the famous French carmaker Bugatti. And Rembrandt plunged in sculpture, namely the animals. He spent hours at the cages, first in Paris and then in Antwerp zoo, watching the habits of elephants, giraffes, leopards. His sculptures, first gravitated to impressionism and Fauvism, and from 1910 (probably under the influence of cubism) became more angular, sharp and geometric, are considered masterpieces of animalism.

But came the First world war, and with it famine and devastation. Impressionable Rembrandt volunteered to work at the hospital. View of wounded and dying soldiers broke through to his mind. The last straw was the killing of most animals in the zoo of Antwerp — simply was nothing to feed them. Rembrandt lost it and committed suicide at the age of 31 years. In remembrance of Ettore's brother suffered a miniature copy of his sculpture "the Elephant in the circus" on the radiator the most magnificent of his creation and the top of the automotive industry 1920-х years Bugatti Type 41 La Royale.

About half a century after the death of Rembrandt his sculptures (there are about 150 works, issued in limited editions or in a single copy) was kept mostly the brother of Ettore or in the collections of several distinguished families. Their first appearance on the art-рынке refers to the early 1970-х. Then they got carried away, I gathered, considered to be the most extensive collection of works by Rembrandt Bugatti.

But now 80-летний Delon decided to part with their collections of art, machines and weapons: "I have collected mountains of things. I prefer to leave their children money."

From the sculpture of the Bugatti auctioned from the collection of Alain Delon, draw attention to a sculpture of a pair of leopards, 1913 (remember the star role of the film in the film "the Leopard"), estimated at 1.2 million euros, and the bronze female figure with the estimation of 600 thousand euros.

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: wionews.com, twicemodern.wordpress.com, zr.ru, en.rfi.fr, artinvestment.ru