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FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)

Lot 29
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Lot 29 | FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)
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$ 4 000 000 – 6 000 000
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)
Important Pair of 'Chameaux', 1974
wool, leather, patinated aluminum, painted metal, foam rubber, wood
45 ½ x 92 7/8 x 40 ½ in. (115.5 x 236 x 103 cm) (closed) (each)
45 ½ x 92 7/8 x 57 1/8 in. (115.5 x 236 x 145 cm) (open) (each)
one monogrammed fxl, dated 74 and numbered 1/4
the other monogrammed fxl twice, dated 74 and numbered 2/4




Provenance

Collection of the artist.
Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris.
François de Menil, New York, 1976.
Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1985, lot 63.
Joel and Sherry Mallin, New York.
Christie's, New York, 12 November 2003, lot 341.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

Monique, "Zoo story with a homey touch," Daily News, New York, 4 June 1974, p. 41.
"Beastly Furniture," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, March 5, 1975, p. 67.
P.-M. Grand, "Un art animal et végétal: Au pays des Lalanne," Le Monde, Paris, 21 June 1975, pp. 1, 28 (for mention of Lalanne's Chameaux).
F. Huser, "Animaux-Meubles, Bijoux-Fleurs," Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 30 June 1975, p. 59 (for mention of Lalanne's Chameaux).
Monique, "Beasts of burden are works of art," Daily News, New York, 23 August 1975, p. 14 (for mention of Lalanne's Chameaux).
"A rhino for Giscard," Evening Standard, London, 21 March 1975, p. 19 (for mention of Lalanne's Chameaux).
J. Russell, Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1975, p. 78.
Les Lalanne: Domesticated beasts & other creatures, exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1976, p. 10.
R. Rosenblum, Les Lalannes, exh. cat., Château de Chenonceau, Geneva, 1991, pp. 56, 110, 115, 138.
D. Marchesseau, The Lalannes, Paris, 1998, pp. 60-61.
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 11.
D. Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 134, 136-137, 310-311, 314, 318.
F.-M. Banier and J.-G. Mitterrand, Claude et François-Xavier Lalanne, vol. 3, Montreuil, 2018, pp. 42-43.
J.-G. Mitterand, Lalanne: A World of Poetry, New York, 2022, pp. 14-15.



Exhibited

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Les Lalanne, March-July 2010, pp. 52-53, 130 (illustrated) and 16-17, 139 (for period photographs).



Further Details

Lot Images: Vincent Girier-Dufournier.
Archival image of the artists: Pierre Boulat / Ass. Pierre & Alexandra Boulat.
Archival image of Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris: Studio Bailhache.
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