So ended a brief and brilliant career that lives on in his 300 sculptures—from five-inch-tall jaguars to full-size antelopes—produced in a little more than a dozen years. Bugatti’s morbid depression is hard to understand. Unlike the frustrating struggles common to other melancholy geniuses, Bugatti’s talent received early recognition, first by his famous father, the fin de siècle furniture designer Carlo Bugatti (whose friends included Tolstoy and Puccini) and by the Russian sculptor Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. Full Article
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