François-Xavier LALANNE 1927-2008

François-Xavier LALANNE 1927 - 2008

Carpe d'Or - model created in 1987
In gilded resin leaf
Edition Artcurial, Paris
Signed "Lalanne", monogrammed "FXL", stamped by the publisher "Artcurial" and numbered
numbered "2XX/250" (the number of the edition will be revealed later on request to preserve the confidentiality of this work).

30 x 57 x 12.5 cm

Provenance:
Acquired from a famous Parisian gallery in the 2000s .

Private collection in the south of France.

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THE ANIMAL REPRESENTATION
François-Xavier Lalanne is above all known for his bestiary and his duplicate, composite creatures. Throughout his career, he will incorporate animals into the furniture he designs. Unique furniture and representative of the decorative art such as the can of sardine sofa or the sheep used as an armchair. One of the artist's wills being to combine the beautiful with the useful and to appropriate the art because as the designer mentioned "When you can sit on a work, it becomes more familiar".

Bibliography:
Robert Rosenblum, Les Lalanne, Edition skira, Geneva, 1991, similar model reproduced p.45
Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, similar model reproduced p.8
Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne: in the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, similar model reproduced p.152

A gilted resin "Carpe d'Or" by François-Xavier Lalanne, signed, stamped and numbered 2XX/250 - model designed in 1987