FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)'HIPPOPOTAME II' BAR, 1978FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)'Hippopotame II' Bar, 1978patinated bronze, stainless steel, copper, nickel silver, brass, painted wood39 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (100 x 200 x 80 cm) (closed)58 1/4 x 83 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. (148 x 222 x 92 cm) (open)monogrammed FXL, stamped LALANNE, dated 78, and numbered 1/8Details FRANÇOIS-XAVIER LALANNE (1927-2008)Hippopotame II Bar, 1978patinated bronze, stainless steel, copper, nickel silver, brass, painted wood39 3/8 x 78 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (100 x 200 x 80 cm) (closed)58 1/4 x 83 1/2 x 36 1/4 in. (148 x 222 x 92 cm) (open)monogrammed FXL, stamped LALANNE, dated 78, and numbered 1/8 Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 21 November 1978 Literature A. Iolas, Les Lalannes, exh. cat., Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris, 1967, n.p. (for Hippopotame I).P. dElme, Histoire des Lalannes in Cimaise, January 1970, p. 61 (for Hippopotame I).“Uno Zoo da Favola” in Vogue Italia, April 1970, pp. 146-147 (for Hippopotame I).J. Russell, Les Lalanne, Paris, 1975, pp. 19 (the artist Kim Hamisky, son-in-law of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, sitting atop Hippopotame I) and 74 (for Hippopotame I).Les Lalanne: Domesticated beasts & other creatures, exh. cat., Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1976, p. 7 (for Hippopotame I).News Report in Progressive Architecture, December 1978, pp. 29-30 (for Hippopotame I).D. Marchesseau, The Lalannes, Paris, 1998, inside cover, p. 86.Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York and Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 2006, pp. 82-83.D. Abadie, Lalanne(s), Paris, 2008, pp. 110-112.Les Lalanne, exh. cat., Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 2010, pp. 46 (for Hippopotame I).P. Kasmin, Claude & François-Xavier Lalanne: Art, Work, Life, New York, 2012, n.p.A. Dannatt, ed., Les Lalanne: Fifty Years of Work 1964-2015, exh. cat., Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2015, p. 72.A. Dannatt, François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams, New York, 2018, pp. 70-73. Conditions of saleProperty from an Important European Private Collection