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masterpiece london 2018 - exhibitor detail - the sladmore gallery - fine 19th, early 20th century bronze sculpture and contemporary sculpture and objects .
the sladmore gallery has its origins in a private collection of 19th - century bronze animal sculptures, assembled by jane horswell in the mid - 1960s at sladmore farm in buckinghamshire. in 1968, the gallery moved to the three floor mews premises off berkeley square, where sladmore contemporary is still located today, in the heart of london’s gallery district. the sladmore gallery with its collection of 19th - and 20th - century sculpture is now located nearby at our recently refurbished jermyn street gallery. since 1980, under the direction of edward horswell, the sladmore has continued to concentrate on fine 19th - and early 20th - century sculpture. an active publishing program of exhibition catalogues and monographs is also an important part of the gallery’s activities. the contemporary department, since 1994 under the direction of gerry farrell, has, in recent years, expanded and includes a select stable of sculptors and painters represented exclusively by the gallery at bruton place. recently, the addition of a private sculpture garden beside the british museum has allowed us to show a wide range of outdoor sculpture on a monumental scale .
this last phase was the best artistically, although it’s the assyrian - style lions and baboons that tend to fetch the highest prices. edward horswell, who owns the sladmore gallery in jermyn street which specialises in animal sculptures and will hold the show, tells me a “trophy” bugatti lion or baboon will go for over a million pounds now, a 10 - fold increase in value in the past decade .
the sladmore gallery started as a small, private collection and is now one of the leading galleries specialising in nineteenth and twentieth century sculpture. fine casts of barye’s work together with selective works by ‘les animaliers’ form the basis of our nineteenth century stock, whilst rodin, degas, maillol and especially bugatti make up the twentieth century. we are sharing the stand with the sladmore contemporary, with animalier sculpture by contemporary masters such as nic fiddian - green and mark coreth as well as portrait artist mario dilitz .
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in the last years of his life, the shy bugatti was possibly mooning over the wife of his more famous brother ettore, the car designer (rembrandt did the rearing elephant mascot on the cars). a lot of photographs remain of rembrandt accompanying barbara and her children on excursions. still, more of the time, rembrandt was mooning over donkeys and lion cubs at antwerp zoo, then the leading zoo in europe. he lived on and off in antwerp for eight years from 1907 and visited the zoo probably daily when he was there .
there’s a little exhibition coming up next month of work by the animal sculptor rembrandt bugatti. bugatti did small maquettes of lions, fauns, hippos and pelicans, working in the early years of the 20th century. they are roughly, rather sinuously moulded, a bit like a rodin if rodin had done animals; sometimes they are somewhat stylised, assyrian looking, and toward the end of his career he would get out a palette knife and chop up the flanks of his panthers and bears into angular shapes .
when the great war came the antwerp zoo had to kill most of its livestock, many of which bugatti had lovingly sculpted. the artist, already depressed, was so broken by this that in 1916, he bought himself a bunch of flowers, lay down on his bed with them and gassed himself. he was 31 .
the fascinating thing about bugatti is that the history of art may be teeming with tales of artists being in love with their models – think rembrandt van rijn and saskia, think picasso and dora maar, think freud and about 25 women – but this gentle italian’s devotion to his subjects must rank among the most touching. bugatti was besotted with animals. he made his models on a scale of 18 inches or so, as most animal sculptors do, less because the thing could sit neatly on a desk and more so that he could model “live” and quickly in front of the beast of his choice .
in pictures - the story of love and romance: from adam and eve to tinder and chemsex. compiled by martin chilton
19th & early 20th century sculpture also at: sladmore contemporary, 32 bruton place, off berkeley square, london w1j 6nw. tel: 020 7499 0365 fax: 020 7409 1381. speciality: contemporary and modern paintings & sculpture artists include: barye, bernard, bourdelle, bugatti, csaky, dalou, pompon, steinlen, maillol, degas, rodin, troubetzkoy sandoz
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the history of art may be teeming with artists in love with their models but this italian sculptor was besotted with animals, says serena davies .
one time, he became so entranced with a pair of antelopes at antwerp zoo, his favourite hangout, that he had them taken to his studio in paris so that he could do their portraits in life size. horswell calls bugatti’s sculptures “portraits” because they’re so sensitive to their individual subjects, and they are certainly sculpted with a sweet sympathy that you don’t get in the more savage pieces by the great french animal sculptor antoine louis barye .
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never marrying, disliking groups of people, there’s no doubt rembrandt preferred animals to human beings. one sad fact tells us this most clearly.
the sladmore gallery is a london art dealership with two premises , one at 32 bruton place off berkeley square ( held since its foundation in 1965 ) and the other established at 57 jermyn street in 2007 . its speciality is animalier sculptors ( with the bruton place premises specialising in contemporary sculptors and jermyn street specialising in 19th - and early 20th-century sculptors ) . its directors are edward horswell , nona horswell and gerry farrell . the gallery has posthumously held exhibitions for auguste rodin , aristide maillol , edgar degas , rembrandt bugatti , prince paul troubetzkoy and antoine-louis barye . living exhibitors at the london premises have included mark coreth , geoffrey dashwood , sophie dickens and nic fiddian-green . the sladmore gallery also puts on shows and fairs in new york , maastricht , paris and london . the sladmore gallery is a member of the british antique dealers ' association and the society of london art dealers . 
the sladmore gallery is a london art dealership with two premises, one at 32 bruton place off berkeley square (held since its foundation in 1965) and the other established at 57 jermyn street in 2007. its speciality is animalier sculptors (with the bruton place premises specialising in contemporary sculptors and jermyn street specialising in 19th - and early 20th-century sculptors). its directors are edward horswell, nona horswell and gerry farrell. the gallery has posthumously held exhibitions for auguste rodin, aristide maillol, edgar degas, rembrandt bugatti, prince paul troubetzkoy and antoine-louis barye. living exhibitors at the london premises have included mark coreth, geoffrey dashwood, sophie dickens and nic fiddian-green. the sladmore gallery also puts on shows and fairs in new york, maastricht, paris and london. the sladmore gallery is a member of the british antique dealers' association and the society of london art dealers.
the sladmore gallery is a london art dealership with two premises, one at 32 bruton place off berkeley square (held since its foundation in 1965) and the other established at 57 jermyn street in 2007. its speciality is animalier sculptors (with the bruton place premises specialising in contemporary sculptors and jermyn street specialising in 19th - and early 20th-century sculptors). its directors are edward horswell, nona horswell and gerry farrell. the gallery has posthumously held exhibitions for auguste rodin, aristide maillol, edgar degas, rembrandt bugatti, prince paul troubetzkoy and antoine-louis barye. living exhibitors at the london premises have included mark coreth, geoffrey dashwood, sophie dickens and nic fiddian-green. the sladmore gallery also puts on shows and fairs in new york, maastricht, paris and london. the sladmore gallery is a member of the british antique dealers' association and the society of london art dealers.