FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008), Grand Mouflon de Pauline

FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)
Grand Mouflon de Pauline
signed, numbered and dated 'FXL 3/8 LALANNE 2006'
patinated bronze, leather, wood and brass, with red-painted interior
52 x 48 x 18 ½in. (132 x 122 x 47cm.)
The model designed 1993, this example executed in 2006 as number three from the edition of eight plus four artist's proofs

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Provenance
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2006.

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF STEVEN SEBRING

Literature
P. Smith, Devotion, New Haven 2017 (detail illustrated on the front cover).

Exhibited
New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, 2006-2007, pp. 74-75 (illustrated in colour; studio view illustrated in colour on the front cover).