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Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

François-Xavier Lalanne

1927 - 2008


Sardine

monogrammed FXL, dated 72, numbered 17 © (to the tail)

calfskin-wrapped polyester foam and stencil paint

30 by 120 by 22 cm. 11⅞ by 47¼ by 8⅝ in.

Executed in 1972.

Gifted by François-Xavier Lalanne to the present owner

John Russell, Les Lalannes, Paris, 1975, p. 79

Robert Rosenblum, Les Lalanne, Geneva, 1991, p. 107

Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, p. 41

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 226-227, 310

Les Lalanne, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 78-79

Lalanne, exhibition catalogue, JGM Galerie, Paris, 2013, p. 74

Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, p. 268

Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Nature Transformed, exhibition catalogue, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 2021, p. 27