The first auction solely dedicated to the work of playful sculptor François Xavier Lalanne has proved a strong success netting $58.9 million at a Christie’s sale in New York on October 10. The sale ...

This October, Christie’s will present its inaugural solo auction of legendary surrealist French sculptor François-Xavier Lalanne’s works, opening with a public exhibit curated by French luxury fashion ...

ANIMAL CROSSING: Not content with boasting a restaurant, exhibition space and private apartment, Dior’s historic flagship on Avenue Montaigne in Paris has teamed up with auction house Sotheby’s to ...

The auction appetite for French designers François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, collectively known as Les Lalanne, continues to surge. A white-glove sale at Sotheby’s Paris of their fanciful and often ...

In the last decade or so, the fantastical creations of French designers and longtime couple François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne have taken the art and design worlds by storm. It’s not as if their ...

The last remaining works from artists Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, known for their surrealist sculptures depicting human-sized sardines and cabbages with chicken legs, will be auctioned off ...

In 2019, a blockbuster two-day auction took place. Months after design icon Claude Lalanne’s death in April of that year (at the age of 94), which followed her husband François-Xavier’s death in 2008, ...

To step into Marie Lalanne’s private art collection is to step into a family scrapbook—a very whimsical one. It's filled with surreal sculptures of the natural world forged by her parents, Claude and ...

A mention of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne will surely conjure images of both the weird and the wonderful: iconic sheep benches, shimmering crocodile furniture, or perhaps the enduring charm of ...

Among the sculptural menagerie that’s taken over the ground floor of Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries, the smallest creature merits mentioning. It’s a metallic fly that lingers on an ...

French artists Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne’s sought-after, collectible surreal sculptures sitting at the crossroads between fine and decorative art challenged the status quo. While ...

89 x 97 x 50 cm. (35 x 38.2 x 19.7 in.) Robert Rosenblum, Les Lalanne, Geneva, 1991, pp. 57, 97 and 99 Daniel Marchesseau, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1998, pp. 33, 36 and 58 ...