Claude Lalanne
artist
Art marketnews
Claude Lalanne’s set of bronze mirrors shatters artist's auction record at Sotheby's
The $33.5m price fetched by set, which once belonged to Yves Saint Laurent, reflects Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne's still-growing market
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Lalanne mirrors owned by Yves Saint Laurent and a classic Diane Arbus photo: our pick of the April auctions
Plus, Konstantin Andreevich Somov's birch trees and rhinoceros after Dürer are on sale this month
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A rare dining set by Claude Lalanne and a childhood portrait of the Dalai Lama: our pick of the June auctions
Plus, an early Western view of India and an “illuminating” Giacometti lightpost
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Wool you look at that: rare set of François-Xavier Lalanne sheep net $1.3m at Bonhams New York
Buyers flocked to Lalanne’s famous sheep and helped ramp prices up past the auction house's estimates
Obituariesnews
French sculptor Claude Lalanne has died, aged 93
Her imaginative works inspired by flora and fauna sometimes carried a Surrealist touch