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There\u2019s just one more day to see Kasmin Gallery<\/a>\u2019s presentation of selected works by the late French husband\/wife sculptors Claude and Francoise-Xavier Lalanne, known as Les Lalanne, whose unique, surreal vision of the natural world continues to resonate.\u00a0 At nearly 10\u2019 long, this huge, mysterious animal with a cat\u2019s head, fish\u2019s tail, cow\u2019s lower body and bird wings serves not just as a creative response to hybrid creatures in classical literature (Lalanne worked as a guard in the Egyptian and Assyrian galleries of the Louvre for a short while), but is opened to serve as a bar cart.\u00a0 Initially conceived of for a private commission by a French architect and now on view as part of the Lalanne\u2019s eldest daughter\u2019s collection, the piece prompted Francois-Xavier Lalanne to remark that the cat was living all nine of its lives at once.\u00a0 (On view through May 9th<\/sup> in Chelsea).<\/p>\n

Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Grand Chat polymorphe, brass, bronze with stainless steel pin, 72 \u00bc x 117 x 25 inches, 1998\/2008.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s just one more day to see Kasmin Gallery\u2019s presentation of selected works by the late French husband\/wife sculptors Claude and Francoise-Xavier Lalanne, known as Les Lalanne, whose unique, surreal vision of the natural world continues to resonate.\u00a0 At nearly 10\u2019 long, this huge, mysterious animal with a cat\u2019s head, fish\u2019s tail, cow\u2019s lower body … <\/p>\n

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