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François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne are among the most popular artists today. Sotheby’s is preparing to disperse their daughter’s collections.
By Gilles Denis
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VSThis is not a bronze sculpture. This is no more a piece of furniture camouflaged in the sides of the animal. This is a future auction record. This Grand Mouflon desk by Pauline, dated 2008, is indeed the work of François-Xavier Lalanne, who, with his wife Claude, herself an artist, has dominated the panorama of major sales for several years, each time pulverizing the estimates – which in this case are very cautiously between 1.5 and 2 million euros. One of the key lots (among 90) of the sale organized by Sotheby’s this fall to disperse the second part of the collections of the artists’ daughter, Dorothée Lalanne. An impeccable provenance and pedigree, and a promise of soaring: the first session, in November 2021, had reached a total of 79,318,220 eur…
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