They might not yet be household names around the world, but Claude and Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Lalanne \u2013 also known as Les Lalanne \u2013 have always been favourites of the creative elite, and their visionary oeuvre continue to inform tastemakers of today (Tom Ford, Marc Jacobs, and Bernard Arnault to name but...
will arrive directly from their shared studio and home close to Fontainebleu, and ‘every single piece embodies the creative genius of this mythic couple’, according to Florent Jeanniard, head of 20th century design at Sotheby’s.
Jeanniard explained that the sale – which is preceded by a global touring exhibition in New York, Hong Kong, London and Paris – will ‘open the doors to the private world of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, from the motifs that inspired them and the artworks they chose to surround themselves with’. Their best known motifs drew the natural world: they created a veritable jungle of animals, flowers, vegetables and plants in cast bronze.
Mario Tavella, president of Sotheby’s France, describes Les Lalanne as ‘a couple who hold today a fundamental place in the history of French art’. As such, the auction is set to be a record-breaker – a 2015 auction at Sotheby’s Paris attracted almost €5m in sales. §‘L’Univers Lalanne: Collection Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne’, 23 – 24 October, Sotheby’s Paris.
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