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Lot Essay
Les premiers choux sur pattes apparaissent pour la première fois lors de l’exposition les Zoophites organisée par la galeriste Jeanine Restany en 1964. Tout au long de sa carrière Claude Lalanne n’aura de cesse de revisiter la feuille de chou, l’hybridant de mille manières, tantôt sur un corps humain notamment L’homme à la tête de chou (1968) qui figurera sur l’album éponyme de Serge Gainsbourg, puis sur son pendant féminin Caroline enceinte (1969), tantôt accolée à des animaux de basse-cour, tels que le lapin (Lapin chou, 1987), ou la poule, comme cela est le cas sur notre œuvre. François-Xavier Lalanne ne s’y trompera pas en déclarant que «la feuille de chou est à Claude ce que la feuille d’acanthe fut à l’art grec».
The first cabbages on legs appeared for the first time during the Zoophites exhibition organized by the gallerist Jeanine Restany in 1964. Throughout her career, Claude Lalanne revisited the cabbage leaf by hybridizing it in a many ways, sometimes on a human body in particular with L’homme à la tête de chou (1968) which appears on the eponymous album of Serge Gainsbourg, then on its female counterpart Caroline enceinte (1969), sometimes attached to farmyard animals, such as the rabbit (Lapin chou, 1987), or as it is the case here : chicken’s legs. François-Xavier Lalanne will not be mistaken in declaring that "The cabbage leaf is to Claude what the acanthus leaf was to Greek art".
The first cabbages on legs appeared for the first time during the Zoophites exhibition organized by the gallerist Jeanine Restany in 1964. Throughout her career, Claude Lalanne revisited the cabbage leaf by hybridizing it in a many ways, sometimes on a human body in particular with L’homme à la tête de chou (1968) which appears on the eponymous album of Serge Gainsbourg, then on its female counterpart Caroline enceinte (1969), sometimes attached to farmyard animals, such as the rabbit (Lapin chou, 1987), or as it is the case here : chicken’s legs. François-Xavier Lalanne will not be mistaken in declaring that "The cabbage leaf is to Claude what the acanthus leaf was to Greek art".