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Property from a prominent West Coast collection

Claude Lalanne

Crocodile armchair

Estimate

700,000 - 900,000 EUR

Lot Details

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Description

Claude Lalanne


Crocodile armchair


2016

Gilt patinated bronze, patinated copper and crocodile leather seat cushion

Monogrammed C.L., stamped CLAUDE LALANNE, dated 2016 and numbered EA 1/4 B on one seat corner

85,5 x 76,5 x 59,5 cm ; 33 ¾ x 30 ⅛ x 23 ⅜ in.

Galerie Mitterrand, Paris

Jane Holzer collection, New York 

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Private collection, United States

Les Lalanne Fifty Years of Work, 1964-2015, exhibition catalogue, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 26 March - 2 May 2015, p. 191, 195 and 198-201

Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, p. 157 and 250-251

Claude Lalanne, Montreuil, 2018, p. 17

Les Lalanne à Trianon, exhibition catalogue, Château de Versailles, Versailles, 19 June - 7 November 2021, p. 33

For similar models:

Les Lalanne, exhibition catalogue, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris, 5 June - 13 July 1975, p. 70-71

Les Lalannes : Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, exhibition catalogue, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 19 May - 30 July 1988, n. p.

Robert Rosenblum, Les Lalanne, Geneva, 1991, p. 79 and 128 

Les Lalanne, exhibition catalogue, JGM. Galerie, Paris, 1994, p. 22-23

Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, p. 56 and 77

Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne : Fragments, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Enrico Navarra and JGM. Galerie, Paris, April - May 2000, p. 39 and 127

François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne: Dreams for the Light of Day, exhibition catalogue, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York and Santa Fe, 2000, p. 66

Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exhibition catalogue, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 16 November 2006 - 13 January 2007, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, May - June 2007, p. 99

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, p. 170-171

Les Lalanne, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 17 March - 4 July 2010, p. 90 and 92-93