LOST AND FOUND. In October in Paris, Sotheby’s will offer 19 pieces by the wildly inventive sculptors and furniture makers Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne that no one knew were in their estate, the Financial Times reports. François-Xavier died in 2008, and Claude died in 2019, and the works that they still held were sold off through the auction house. But then assistants at their workshop moved huge bronze bulls by François-Xavier that were in front of a door. That door opened onto a room with 19 more works that were not catalogued. “Nobody knows why they put the bulls in front of this door,” Florent Jeanniard, the chairman and co-worldwide head of design at Sotheby’s Paris, told the FT. [FT]
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