LOT DETAILS

Materials:

a flock of 24 sheep, comprising seven white and one black sheep and sixteen white grazing sheep

Size Notes:

each sheep: (90.2 x 109.9 x 43.8 cm.)

Literature:

Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1975, p. 10 (other examples illustrated). Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Château de Chenonceau, 1991, p. 57 and 97-99 (other examples illustrated). D. Marchesseau, The Lalannes, Paris, 1998, pp. 36, 41 and 58-59 (other examples illustrated). Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2007, p. 90 (other examples illustrated in color and on the frontispiece). D. Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 192-195, 231, 299, and 303 (other examples illustrated). Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 40-41 and 98 (other examples illustrated).

Provenance:

Alexander Iolas Galerie, Paris. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1976.