Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

Important Design: from Noguchi to Lalanne

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Chez Kay: Property from the Collection of Kay Unger

François-Xavier Lalanne

Mouton de Laine

Auction Closed

May 25, 06:32 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Chez Kay: Property from the Collection of Kay Unger

François-Xavier Lalanne

Mouton de Laine


designed circa 1965, executed 1988

patinated bronze, wool

dated 88

35 5/8 x 37 1/2 x 19 in. (90.4 x 95.2 x 48.2 cm)

Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, California
Collection of Nancy and Julius Epstein, 1988
Thence by descent to the present owner
John Russell, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1975, p. 10
Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, pp. 36 and 58-59
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 90
Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 192-193 and 299
Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 40-41
Adrian Dannatt, ed., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, pp. 30, 50 and 137
Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 10-11, 90, 98, 101, 103-107, 149, 196 and 239