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François-Xavier Lalanne

"Le Métaphore" (Canard-Bateau)

Auction Closed

December 10, 08:02 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important European Collection

François-Xavier Lalanne

"Le Métaphore" (Canard-Bateau)


designed 2002

number 1 from an edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs

executed by Clementi Fondeur, Meudon, France

white bronze, brass, ebonized wood

titled LE METAPHORE, monogrammed FXL, numbered 1/8 and impressed CLEMENTI FONDEUR

12 ¼ x 20 ⅞ x 6 ⅝ in. (31.1 x 53 x 16.8 cm)

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

Private Collection

Heritage Auctions, Texas, October 1, 2019, lot 67069

Galerie Bailly, Paris

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Les Lalanne à Bagatelle, exh. cat., Les Jardins de Bagatelle, Paris, 1998, p. 41 (for a related example)

Les Lalanne, exh. cat., JGM Galerie, Paris, May - June, 2002, pp. 42 (for related drawings) and 43

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 240-241 (for related drawings) and 242

Véronique Bouruet-Aubertot and Valérie de Maulmin, "Les Lalannes,"Connaissance des Arts, no. 441, March, 2010, p. 28