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Claude Lalanne's precious miniscultures under the hammer

2021-11-03T12:13:54.150Z


The artist's jewelry, collected since the 1960s by the most elegant women, is a concentrate of his universe. On the occasion of the sale of the couple's works, by one of their four daughters, Dorothée, Sotheby's disperses around fifty of them.


On both sides of the Atlantic, objects imagined by François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne are competing with millions. With of course, a marked predilection for their famous sheep which once stood on rue de Babylone, at Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé. This strong desirability, largely galvanized this fall by major cultural institutions such as the Palace of Versailles in France, which extends the exhibition at the Trianon dedicated to Lalanne until November 7, promotes active research for pieces that are “

virgin of the market”.

As the connoisseurs say.

This is precisely what Sotheby's is offering with the sale, during three sessions (one in the room to be held on November 4 and two online open since October 25), of a considerable set of works by the magical duo. sculptors (who worked together for sixty years until the death of François-Xavier in 2008) from the collection of one of their four daughters, Dorothée.

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Source: lefigaro

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