Provenance

Collection of Charles Graham Berwind Jr., Pennsylvania (by repute acquired directly from the artist circa 1990s).
By descent in the family.
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.

Literature

Les Lalanne, an exhibition catalogue, Galerie Christian Fayt Art, Knokke-Heist, 1984, pl. 20 (another example illustrated).

Claude et François-Xavier Lalanne, an exhibition catalogue, Galerie des Ponchettes, 1985, pp. 36 and 37 (another example illustrated).

Lalanne, an exhibition catalogue, Plaza of the Americas, Dallas, 1986, p. 2 (another example illustrated).

Les Lalanne. Claude et François-Xavier Lalanne, an exhibition catalogue, Marisa Del Re Gallery, New-York, 1988, n. p. (another example illustrated on the cover).

Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris: Flammarion, 1998, pp. 34-36, 146 (other examples illustrated).

Robert Rosenblum, Les Lalanne, Geneva: Skira, 1991, pp. 76, 122, 124, 127 (other examples illustrated).

Daniel Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris: Flammarion, 2008, pp. 186, 187, 190, 191, 322, 325, 326, 335 (other examples illustrated).

Les Lalanne at Fairchild, an exhibition catalogue., New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery; and Coral Gables: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, 2010, pp. 6, and 8 (other examples illustrated).

Paul Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Art, Work, Life, New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2012, pp. 85 and 178 (other examples illustrated).

Adrian Dannatt, et al., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work 1964-2015, an exhibition catalogue, New York: Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2015, pp. 77, 88- 89, 106-108 (other examples illustrated).

Adrian Dannatt, François-Xavier & Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2018, pp. 18, 84-89, 181, 192-193, 210 (other examples illustrated).

Note

Please see lot 30 for more information on this work.