ID 1356810
Lot 74 | BUGATTI (EST. 1909)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 90 000
'Baby 52' Electric Car, circa 1930
aluminium, painted steel sheet, leather, electric motor. The dashboard featuring a pressure gauge and inverter, with a shift to the right of the seat
22 ¼ x 76 x 25 ¾ in. (56.5 x 193 x 65.5 cm)
numbered 142
with Bugatti enameled plaque
Provenance
Private Collection, France, 1926
Thence by descent
Christie's, New York, 8 June 2016, lot 24
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
For a period photograph of the model:
M. Haslam, P. Garner, M. Harvey and H. Conway, The Amazing Bugattis, New York, 1979, p. 73
P. Dejean, Carlo - Rembrandt - Ettore - Jean Bugatti, New York, 1982, pp. 257, 260
J.-C. Des Cordes and V. Fromanger Des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti: catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1987, p. 321
Bugatti, exh. cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1999, pp. 100, fig. 16; 101, fig. 17
P. Demandt and A. Daemgen, Rembrandt Bugatti: The Sculptor 1884-1916, exh. cat., Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, 2014, p. 28
E. Horswell, Rembrandt Bugatti: Life in Sculpture, London, 2016, p. 267
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