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BUGATTI, Rembrandt: Dancing Elephant

🖼 Dancing Elephant, 1927
Cast silver, height 19 cm
Mulhouse, France

Graceful curves and dynamic movement capture an elephant mid-leap, rendered in bronze with masterful anatomical precision. Bugatti's 1927 sculpture revolutionized animal art, blending naturalism with Art Deco elegance and establishing the elephant as symbol of power and freedom in modernist sculpture.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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