Partenaires, amis et complices en privé comme en comme en témoignent La Science, La Loi et public, les Lalanne, deux artistes complémentaires !L’enlèvement d’Europe, trois chefs-d’œuvre des La prédilection de François-Xavier pour leLalanne inconnus du public, réalisés pour le monde animal ne vient-elle pas merveilleusementparc du CEDEP, en parfaite adéquation avec enrichir le travail de Claude, lui, plus axé sur lel’environnement créé également par le couple, végétal ? Une entente exceptionnelle qui a sansadeptes du design végétal et qui seront dispersés doute grandement contribué à la longévité dele 3 Octobre prochain par la Maison de ventes leur collaboration et de leur couple, de même Osenat. Des réalisations qui vont bien au delà de qu’à la création d’œuvres majeures parfois àleur métier de sculpteurs et s’apparentent à un contre-courant mais toujours indémodablestravail d’architecte. “Art is like life: it shouldn’t be taken so seriously…” François-Xavier Lalanne Inseparable in their intimacy as they were in their work, the Lalanne couple holds to this day the image of an extraordinary artistic duo. A partnership which started shortly after they met in 1956, and which lasted until François-Xavier’s death in 2008. Fifty years of sharing the same sources of inspiration, the same singular and unique approach in 7 their art, the same passion for sculpture and design… Working together, the Lalannes gave birth to baroque and eccentric creations, freely inspired by Mother Nature and where all conformity is definitively excluded. Through the couple’s hands, monkeys, rhinoceroses, sheeps, crocodiles or camels become desks, sofas, tables and other daily objects of which the originality is only matched by their refi- nement. Indeed for the Lalannes, sculpture needs to be functional and desacralized. An innovative approach that allowed them to create a wondrous bestiary - sometimes with surreal creatures like Claude’s Choupattes - which ranks the couple amongst the most Claude and Francois-Xavier dans leur studio, 1965. famous and sought-after creators of the second half of the 20th Century. ropean Center for Permanent Education), located in Fontainebleau near the couple’s former atelier in Ury. Partners, friends and soulmates in private and public, the Lalannes, two artists who comple- Sculptors and designers all together, with a ted each other ! Isn’t François-Xavier’s affinity for wildlife a wonderful addition to Claude, timeless style, Claude and François-Xavier whose works are more focused on botanics ? An exceptional bond certainly explains the unique Lalanne remained essentially eternal admi- longevity of their collaboration, their couple. Their major works, often in opposite of established rers of the beauties of Nature to which they trends but always timeless, are the essence of La Science, La Loi and L’Enlèvement d’Europe, devoted their life, creating gardens and parks three worthy masterpieces, unknown until now to the public, created for the CEDEP park, in such as The Halles and the Jardin des Enfants perfect harmony with the environment also created by the couple involved in vegetal design. project in Paris - their first co-signed project On October 3, Osenat Auction House will present these three works. Creations that go beyondrd - and later the park for the CEDEP (Eu- their artist status and extend to an architect’s work. UAELBENIATNOF À ENNALAL SED TERCES NIDRAJ EL1202 ERBOTCO 3 EHCNAMID