Important Design

Important Design

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

François-Xavier Lalanne

Mouton de Laine

Auction Closed

December 8, 09:48 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

François-Xavier Lalanne

Mouton de Laine


designed circa 1965, executed circa 1980

patinated bronze, wool

twice monogrammed FXL and impressed LALANNE

35 x 37½ x 17½ in. (88.9 x 95.2 x 44.4 cm)

Opera Gallery, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2013
John Russell, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1975, p. 10
Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, pp. 36 and 58-59
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 90
Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 192-193 and 299
Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 40-41
Adrian Dannatt, ed., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, pp. 30, 50 and 137
Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 10-11, 90, 98, 101, 103-107, 149, 196 and 239