Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale
Impressionist, Modern & Contemporary Art | An Evening Sale
Property from an Important Estate
“Crocodile” Armchair
Auction Closed
December 9, 12:09 AM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Estate
Claude Lalanne
“Crocodile” Armchair
2015
number 2B from an edition of 8
gilt bronze, leather upholstery
impressed LALANNE, monogrammed CL, numbered 2/8B and dated 2015
32 ⅛ x 30 ½ x 26 ½ in. (81.7 x 77.4 x 67.3 cm)
Galerie Mitterrand, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015
Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1975, pp. 70-71 (for variants of the model)
Daniel Marchesseau, les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, pp. 56 and 77 (for variants of the model)
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, Fragments, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Enrico Navarra and JGM Galerie, Paris, April - May 2000, p. 39
Reed Krakoff, Ben Brown and Paul Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 99
Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 170-171 (for variants of the model)
Les Lalanne, Paris, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 88, 90 and 92-93 (for variants of the model)
Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work, 1964-2015, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, pp. 72-73 and 103 (for a related settee), 184, 188, 191, 193, 195 and 198-199 (for variants of the model)
Delphine and Reed Krakoff, Houses That We Dreamt Of: The Interiors of Delphine and Reed Krakoff, New York, 2017, pp. 23-24, 49, 211 and 239
Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 41, 157, 244, 250-251 and 258 (for variants of the model)