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

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Charitable Foundation

Claude Lalanne

"Ginkgo" Chair


1997

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

gilt patinated bronze

impressed LALANNE, monogrammed CL, dated 97 and numbered 1/8 A

30⅝ x 23⅛ x 12½ in. (77.8 x 58.7 x 31.8 cm)

Christie's Paris, December 8, 2009, lot 20
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
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
Paul Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, New York, 2012, n.p.
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