Property from the Gunter Sachs Collection
François-Xavier Lalanne
Troupeau de Moutons de Laine
Auction Closed
May 16, 01:17 AM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Gunter Sachs Collection
François-Xavier Lalanne
1927 - 2008
Troupeau de Moutons de Laine
comprising one mouton and three ottomans
each monogrammed fxl and dated 68 (on the underside)
painted aluminum, wool, painted wood, casters
mouton: 33 ½ by 39 by 19 ¼ in. 85.1 by 99 by 48.9 cm.
each ottoman: 21 ½ by 29 ½ by 16 ¼ in. 54.6 by 74.9 by 41.3 cm.
Designed circa 1965, executed in 1968.
Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1969)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Leipzig, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Gunter Sachs, July - October 2008
John Russell, Les Lalanne, Paris 1975, p. 10, illustrated
Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris 1998, pp. 36, 58-59, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery; London, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, 2006, p. 90, illustrated in color
Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris 2008, pp. 192-93, 299, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Les Lalanne, 2010, pp. 40-41, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work, 2015, pp. 30, 50 illustrated and p. 137, illustrated in color
Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York 2018, pp. 10-11, 90, 98, 101, 103-07, 149, 196, 239, illustrated in color