Rembrandt Bugatti bronze stars in beastly auction selection

Head and shoulders above anything else in Millon’s (25% buyer’s premium) animalier bronze sale, Bestiare, held on March 8 at Drouot in Paris, was a dramatic study of a lion eating by one of the most sought-after names in the genre and the star of the so-called Antwerp school of sculpture.

Anne Crane
01 Apr 2019

This Hébrard cast of a lion by Rembrandt Bugatti, one of an edition of just three, sold for €620,000 (£539,130) at a Millom auction.

Anne Crane
01 Apr 2019

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The Hébrard cast by Rembrandt Bugatti, one of an edition of just three, of which this was numbered two, more than doubled its €200,000-300,000 guide to take €620,000 (£539,130).

A 8in (19cm) long bronze crocodile by another well-known animalier sculptor Antoine Louis Barye, pictured in ATG No 2380, realised €4200 (£3650).