Claude Lalanne's monumental "Pomme d'Hiver" soared past expectations by 3x the high estimate. Rising over seven feet in gilt bronze, the sculpture magnifies a single apple to architectural scale — a form the artist returned to again and again, but never with such imposing proportions. At once playful and uncanny, the work places Lalanne in dialogue with Magritte and Dalí, destabilizing scale the way the great Surrealists once destabilized reality — only gentler, grounded in nature rather than the subconscious. With its radiant gold patina, "Pomme d'Hiver" is a defining expression of Lalanne's lifelong reverence for the marvelous hiding inside the familiar. Still haven’t subscribed to Sotheby’s on YouTube? ►►https://www.youtube.com/sothebys/

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