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CLAUDE LALANNE (1925-2019)
'Crocodile' Settee, 2013
gilt bronze, patinated copper, leather and suede upholstery
32 5/8 x 48 3/4 x 25 3/16 in. (83 x 124 x 64 cm)
monogrammed CL, stamped LALANNE, dated 2013 and numbered 3/8
Provenance
Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2014
Literature
J. Russell, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1975, pp. 70-71 (for an armchair version of this model)
Les Lalannes: Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1988, n.p. (for a related example)
R. Rosenblum, Les Lalanne, Geneva, 1991, pp. 79, 104, 128 (for an armchair version of this model)
D. Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, pp. 56, 77 (for an armchair version of this model)
W. Peterson, ed., François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne Dreams for the Light of Day, exh. cat., Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, 2000, p. 66 (for an armchair version of this model)
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Fragments, exh. cat., Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris and JGM Galerie, Paris, 2000, pp. 39, 127 (for an armchair version of this model)
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 99 (for an armchair version of this model)
D. Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 170-171, 311, 342 (for an armchair version of this model)
Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 88 and 90, 92-93 (for an armchair version of this model)
A. Dannatt, ed., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work 1964-2015, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, pp. 72-73, 103 and 184, 188, 191, 193, 195, 198-201 (for an armchair version of this model)
A. Dannatt, François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 233 and 41, 157, 237, 244, 250-251, 258 (for an armchair version of this model)
F.-M. Banier and J.-G. Mitterrand, Claude Lalanne vol. 2, Montreuil, 2018, p. 17 (for an armchair version of this model)
K. Morris, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Nature Transformed, exh. cat. The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2021, pp. 4, 84-85, 116, 120 (for an armchair version of this model)
Les Lalanne à Trianon, exh. cat., Château de Versailles, Paris, 2021, pp. 33 and 35, 39, 124 (for an armchair version of this model)