Claude Lalanne

Exhibited by Mitterrand

Material Gilt bronze

Dimensions H 89 x 77 x 65 cm (each)

Place of Creation France

Price Price available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

Claude Lalanne’s Fauteuils Crocodile (2015) are part of her famous Croco furniture and one of the finest examples of the artist’s surrealist creativity and audacity. For several decades, Claude Lalanne’s work has reflected her taste for organic forms, the use of imprinting and the electroplating technique. She integrates the unique shape of the animal directly into her bronze work by molding real crocodile skins.

Provenance

Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, France;
Private collection, USA. Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2015.

Literature

John Russell, Les Lalanne, SMI, Paris, 1975, p. 70-71 (illustré).
Les Lalanne: Claude et François-Xavier Lalanne, catalogue d'exposition, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1988 (illustré).
Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, p. 56, 77 (illustré).
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Fragments, catalogue d'exposition, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris et JGM Galerie, Paris, 2000, p. 39, 127.
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, catalogue d'exposition, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York et Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, p. 99.
Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, p. 170-171.
Les Lalanne, catalogue d'exposition, Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, p. 88, 90, 92-93.
Paul Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, New York, 2012.
Adrian Dannatt, Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work 1964-2015, New York, 2015, p. 103, 184, 188, 191, 193, 195, 198, 199-201 (illustré).
Adriana Dannatt, François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne in the domain of dreams, Rizzoli, New York, 2018, p. 157, 244, 250-251, 258 (illustré).
Galerie Mitterrand, Les Lalanne à Trianon, Galerie Mitterrand, 2021. p. 33, 35, 39 (illustré).
Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand, Lalanne, A World of Poetry, Assouline Editions, 2023.