Freeman s to offer an important private collection of sculptures by François-Xavier Lalanne
The flock of five epoxy stone and patinated bronze sheep represent what is arguably the artists most recognizable design.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.-Freemans will present for the first time at auction a private collection of seven sculptures by celebrated artist François-Xavier Lalanne in its November 17 Modern and Contemporary Art auction. Anchored by a set of five of Lalannes iconic epoxy stone and bronze sheep, or Mouton de Pierre, each sculpture in the collection was acquired directly from the artist in the late 1980s and has remained in the same home ever since. The collection, coming from a prominent Washington, D.C. family, includes five Mouton de Pierre of consecutive numbers from a 1988 edition of 250 (estimate: $100,000-150,000 ea.), a patinated bronze Rhinocéros III (estimate: $60,000-80,000), and a patinated bronze Éléphant (estimate: $40,000-60,000).
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by Claudia Carr Levy
NEW YORK, NY
.- Upon first seeing Jason Stewarts new work, I thought of Filippo Brunelleschis facade of the Ospedale degli Innocenti, the foundling hospital in Florence that he was commissioned to design in 1419. The arches of the hospital facade have always captivated me. Brunelleschis arches are perfect in their form and progression: perfect graceful architecture. Why, I wondered, did that architectural image appear as I looked at the series of paintings called Shaping Color? The precision of Jason Stewarts arcs in their spaces on canvas resonate with Brunelleschis architecture. The paintings seem to transpose geometric architectural form into pictorial space. Perhaps this geometry would seem to belie the dominance and importance of color in these paintings. Yet color holds the arcs; the arcs hold color. The more one looks at these works, the more one observes the paradox between color and form. And the mo