Not just a bronze sculpture by a modern French master, but a bronze sculpture which opens to reveal a whisky bar. Carla Passino found out more from the art dealer who fell so hopelessly in love with the piece that he was desperate to buy it himself.
‘Who wouldn’t want to have a whisky out of a hippo?’ ponders Ben Brown of the eponymous Mayfair, Hong Kong and Palm Beach art gallery. Who, indeed? Yet, Hippopotame II (Bar), a large bronze by François-Xavier Lalanne…
