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Small Antelopes, The Two Friends (Petites Antilopes, Les Deux Amies)

Artist/Maker Rembrandt Bugatti Italy, 1885 - 1916
Date1911
MediumBronze
Dimensions10 1/8 × 17 1/4 × 4 1/2 in. (25.7 × 43.8 × 11.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Lee W. Lenz; National Museum of Wildlife Art
Object numberW2009.012
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionSculpture of two antelope facing each other with heads down. Bugatti was very fond of these two animals; the Antwerp Zoo loaned them to him, and he took them to Paris where they lived in his studio. He did a number of sculptures of them.
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Eland
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Cogogne sur une Patte
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The Small Lion Hunt
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c. 1629
Striding Elephant
Charles-Louis Virion
c. 1900
Reclining Hind (Seated Fawn)
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Bobcat and Bees
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Shadowed
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1906
Le Bison
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Le Lion Qui Pleure
Auguste Rodin
modeled 1881, this cast 1955