Signed, in script inside right leg: Bugatti

probably (estate of Carlo Bugatti, Versailles, France)

Felix Marcilhac (Paris, France)

(Macklowe Gallery, New York, New York, USA)

(Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)

1992-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Carlo Bugatti, Rocker, ca. 1903, vellum-covered beechwood with paint, colored pencil, and varnish. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, John and Ella Imerman 20th Century American and European Decorative Arts Fund, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts General Fund, et al., 1992.211.