Claude Lalanne

Collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, Paris, commissioned directly from the artist, 1974-1985

Christie's Paris, Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, February 23-25, 2009, lot 220

Acquired from the above by the present owners

Les Lalanne, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, June 5-July 13, 1975 (the first two mirrors commissioned from the artist)

Musée Boymans, Rotterdam, August 1-September 15, 1975 (the first two mirrors commissioned from the artist)

Les Lalanne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, March 17-July 4, 2010 (three of the present mirrors)

For the present lot illustrated:

Les Lalanne, Centre National d'art Contemporain, Paris, 1975, p. 42

"Yves Saint Laurent Chez Luis," Vogue Decoration, no. 7, September 1986, cover

John Richardson, “The Art of Yves Saint Laurent,” House & Garden, October 1986, pp. 174-75

Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, pp. 138-139

Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, pp. 22-23

Robert Murphy, The Private World of Yves Saint Laurent & Pierre Bergé, New York, 2009, pp. 34-37

Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 94-96

Adrian Dannatt, ed., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, p. 68

Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 152-155 and 158-160

Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Nature Transformed, exh. cat., Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, 2021, p. 35