François-Xavier Lalanne

Singe II

Auction Closed

December 8, 09:48 PM GMT

Estimate

700,000 - 1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collector

François-Xavier Lalanne

Singe II

1992

hors commerce proof from an edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proof

patinated bronze

monogrammed fxl, impressed SIIB and numbered HC00/00

29⅞ x 5¼ x 8 in. (75.6 x 13.3 x 20.3 cm)

Private Collection, France

Galerie Mitterrand, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, p. 134 (for a related model)

Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, pp. 30-31 and 67 (for related models)

Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 108 and 112 (for related models)

Paul Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, New York, 2012, n.p. (for a related silvered bronze model)

Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, p. 117 (for a related silvered bronze model)

Les Lalanne à Trianon, exh. cat., Paris, 2021, pp. 38-39 (for the present lot illustrated)