Important Design

Important Design

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Property from a Private European Charitable Foundation

Claude Lalanne

"Ginkgo" Chair

Auction Closed

December 6, 05:52 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Charitable Foundation

Claude Lalanne

"Ginkgo" Chair


2001

number 1B from an edition of 8 plus 4 artist proofs

executed by Figini Fondeur, France

gilt patinated bronze

impressed LALANNE, monogrammed CL, dated 2001 and numbered 1/8B

30⅞ x 18 x 16½ in. (78.4 x 45.7 x 41.9 cm)

Christie's Paris, December 8, 2009, lot 19

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, pp. 130-131

François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne: Dreams for the Light of Day, exh. cat., Gerald Peters Gallery, New York and Santa Fe, 2000, p. 51 (for the model in aluminum)

Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 95

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 266-267 (for a maquette of the model in copper and an example of the model in aluminum)

Paul Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, New York, 2012, n.p. (for the model in aluminum)

Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier et Claude Lalanne, In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 23, 167-169, 217, 222-223, 239 and 249