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Show REMBRANDT DIES OF GAS POISON Greatest Living Animal Sculptor Sculp-tor Found Unconscious in Studio in Paris. WAR DEPRESSED ARTIST Devoted Last Days Entirely to New Interpretation of . Christ-Work Now at Foundry. Paris, Jan. 10, 4:35 a. m. The Italian animal sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti, was found lying unconscious yesterday in his studio In Rue Joseph, Bara. A physician who was summoned sum-moned said the sculptor was suffering suffer-ing from gas poisoning. A gas Jet in the studio was turned on. Bugatti was taken to Laennec hospital, where he died. The work of Slgnor Bugatti, who was regarded as one of the greatest living sculptors, is represented in most of the galleries of Europe. When tne Avar openea ue was moueinng animals at the zoological gardens in Antwerp. He gave up this work and .devoted himself to assisting the Belgian Bel-gian ambulance corps. When Antwerp Ant-werp was evacuated he went to Holland Hol-land and thence to Italy, but as his class was not mobilized he came to Paris. War Depresses Sculptor. Of late months the war seemed to have affected the sculptor profoundly. He was greatly depressed by the sufferings suf-ferings of the Belgians, for whom he had great admiration. He frequently pointed to the ribbon of the Legion of Honor In his buttonhole and said: "I ought to give it to some mutilated Belgian soldier" Slgnor Bugatti gave up some time ago his work in the specialty which won his fame, saying: "This is not the time to make animals," He devoted de-voted himself entirely to a new interpretation in-terpretation of Christ. This work, now at the foundry. Is his last. |