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FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)
'Hippopotame II' Bar, 1978
patinated bronze, stainless steel, copper, nickel silver, brass, painted wood
39 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (100 x 200 x 80 cm) (closed)
58 1/4 x 83 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. (148 x 222 x 92 cm) (open)
monogrammed FXL, stamped LALANNE, dated 78, and numbered 1/8
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 21 November 1978
Literature
A. Iolas, Les Lalannes, exh. cat., Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris, 1967, n.p. (for 'Hippopotame I').
P. d'Elme, "Histoire des Lalannes" in Cimaise, January 1970, p. 61 (for 'Hippopotame I').
“Uno Zoo da Favola” in Vogue Italia, April 1970, pp. 146-147 (for 'Hippopotame I').
J. Russell, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1975, pp. 19 (the artist Kim Hamisky, son-in-law of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne sitting atop 'Hippopotame I') and 74 (for 'Hippopotame I').
Les Lalanne: Domesticated beasts & other creatures, exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1976, p. 7 (for 'Hippopotame I').
"News Report" in Progressive Architecture, December 1978, pp. 29-30 (for 'Hippopotame I').
D. Marchesseau, The Lalannes, Paris, 1998, inside cover, p. 86.
Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, pp. 82-83.
D. Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 110-112.
Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 46 (for 'Hippopotame I').
P. Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne Art, Work, Life, New York, 2012, n.p.
A. Dannatt, ed., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work 1964-2015, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, p. 72.
A. Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 70-73.