Claude Lalanne

Exhibited by Mitterrand

Material Gilt bronze

Dimensions H 137.2 x 102 cm

Place of Creation France

Price Price available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

Claude Lalanne’s Pomme de Londres (2007) reflects the artist’s poetic, surrealist spirit on a monumental scale. Lalanne found her inspiration in the gardens of the house she shared with her partner in Ury, near Paris. The apple is a recurring theme throughout the artist’s career, from the life-size Pomme Bouche to the portable Pomme Bouche brooch, the Pomme-Montre that tells the time, the large-scale Pomme de Jardin Rouge and the bronze Pomme d’Hiver and Pomme de New York.

Provenance

Artist's studio
Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Private Collection
Private Collection, Paris

Literature

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 144 and 150- 151 (for the related Pomme de New York model)
Les Lalanne on Park Avenue, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2009, n.p. (for the related Pomme de New York model)

Les Lalanne at Fairchild, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL, 2010, n.p. (for the related Pomme d'Hiver model)
Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 35 (for the related Pomme de Jardin model), 114 (for the related Pomme de Ben model) and 143 (for the related Pomme de New York model)

Paul Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Art Work Life, New York, 2012, n.p. (for related Pomme models)
Adrian Dannatt, Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, pp. 72, 75, 77, 81, 100, 119 and 169-174 (for related Pomme models) Les Lalanne à Trianon, exh. cat., Palace of Versailles with Galerie Mitterrand, Paris, 2021, pp. 48-4.