Contemporary Art Online | Paris
Contemporary Art Online | Paris
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE | TORTUE
Lot Closed
June 3, 01:06 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE
1927 - 2008
TORTUE
monogrammed FxL, numbered 34/100 and dated 73
copper
Executed in 1973.
30 x 30 x 15 cm ; 11 13/16 x 11 13/16 x 6 in.
[cuivre
monogrammé FxL, numéroté 34/100 et daté 73
Exécuté en 1973.]
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Marguerite Krebs, Brussels
Acquired from the above by the present owner
[Marguerite Krebs, Bruxelles
Acquis auprès de celle-ci par le propriétaire actuel]
Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, p. 40 (other example)
[Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, p. 40 (autre exemplaire)]
François-Xavier Lalanne was born in 1927 in Agen. After the war, he moved to Paris where he studied at the Julian academy to become a painter. On the occasion of his first exhibition at the Cimaise Gallery in Paris in 1952, he met Claude Dupeux, his future wife. After meeting her, he then gave up painting and started working with Claude, becoming the iconic duo better known as "Les Lalanne". Together, they invented a magical bestiary composed of monkeys, rhinos, donkeys, camels, toads, hippos or cats.