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François-Xavier Lalanne

Mouton de pierre

Auction Closed

March 5, 01:57 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

François-Xavier Lalanne

1927 - 2008


Mouton de Pierre

epoxy stone and patinated bronze

monogrammed FXL and stamped LALANNE (on the right cheek); numbered E.A. 9/30 (on the left cheek)

87 by 94.6 by 38.1 cm. 34¼ by 37¼ by 15 in.

Designed in 1979, this work is number E.A. 9/30 from an edition of 250 plus 30 E.A.

Private Collection, Europe

Christie's, Paris, 27 May 2009, lot 24

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Les Lalannes: Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, 1988, illustration of another example on the cover

Robert Rosenblum, Les Lalanne, Geneva 1991, p. 76, illustration of another example on the cover

Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris 1998, p. 146, illustration in colour of another example

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris 2008, pp. 186-87 and 190-91, illustration of another example

Exh. Cat., New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Les Lalanne, Fifty Years of Work, 2015, pp. 106 and 108, illustration of another example

Adrien Danatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York 2018, pp. 4, 84 and 192, illustration of another example