Rocker

ca. 1903

Carlo Bugatti Italian, 1856-1940

On View

Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Rocker

Artwork Date ca. 1903

Artist Carlo Bugatti

Life Dates 1856-1940

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Vellum-covered beechwood with paint, colored pencil, and varnish

Dimensions Overall: 35 × 16 1/4 × 21 inches (88.9 × 41.3 × 53.3 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Founders Society Purchase, John and Ella Imerman 20th Century American and European Decorative Arts Fund, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts General Fund, 20th-Century Decorative Arts and Design Fund, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, and Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1992.211

Markings

Signed Signed, in script inside right leg: Bugatti

Provenance

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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Published References

Brunhammer, Y., et al. Art Nouveau Belgium, France. Exh. cat., Houston, 1976, p. 138 (ill.), no. 156.

Dejean, Philippe. Carlo Rembrandt Ettore Jean Bugatti. New York, 1980, p. 62 (ill.).

Garner, Philippe. A Century of Chair Design. New York, 1980, p. 87.

The Museum Collects: Treasures by Sculptors and Craftsmen. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1980-1981, pp. 28-29.

La Chronique des arts et de la curiosité: supplement to Gazette des beaux-arts 97, no. 1346 (March 1982): p. 42 (ill.).

Kahn, Barry. "Two Bugattis: A car and a rocker." Monthly Detroit, June 1982, pp. 34-35, p. 39 (ill.).

Heidrich, William P. A Bugatti Masterpiece: The Toledo Museum of Art's Rocking Chair. MA Thesis, University of Michigan.

Hawley, H. "Some Furniture and Silver of Carlo Bugatti." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 5 (May 1992): p. 130-143.

Darr, A. and T. Albainy. "Acquisitions of European sculpture and decorative arts at the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1988 - 1999." The Burlington Magazine 142 (June 2000): p. 412, no. 25 (color ill.).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

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.