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
