Les Lalannes: Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne

$175.00

Catalog accompanying an exhibition held at New York’s Marisa Del Rey Gallery from May-June 1988. Features both independent and collaborative work by the French artists Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, ranging from small-scale bronzes and tablewares to large-scale functional sculptures including Hippopotame and Gorille de Surete. In the words of the eponymous gallerist, “Having followed the work of the Lalannes for years, I am continually enchanted by their imagination and humor. Always teetering on the brink between art and decoration, furniture and sculpture, fantasy and functionality; their work becomes a surrealism of juxtaposition and transition—a crocodile becomes a chair as a rabbit blows in the wind.” With an introductory text by art critic and journalist John Russell. 4to (9.5” x 10.5”), glossy pictorial wrappers, unpaginated but approximately 26 pages, color illustrations including full-page bleeds, throughout. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.

Catalog accompanying an exhibition held at New York’s Marisa Del Rey Gallery from May-June 1988. Features both independent and collaborative work by the French artists Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, ranging from small-scale bronzes and tablewares to large-scale functional sculptures including Hippopotame and Gorille de Surete. In the words of the eponymous gallerist, “Having followed the work of the Lalannes for years, I am continually enchanted by their imagination and humor. Always teetering on the brink between art and decoration, furniture and sculpture, fantasy and functionality; their work becomes a surrealism of juxtaposition and transition—a crocodile becomes a chair as a rabbit blows in the wind.” With an introductory text by art critic and journalist John Russell. 4to (9.5” x 10.5”), glossy pictorial wrappers, unpaginated but approximately 26 pages, color illustrations including full-page bleeds, throughout. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.