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"A Getty station is not a place you'd expect to see art-world insiders congregating on a beautiful September evening. Yet there they were Monday night on the corner of 24th Street and Tenth Avenue in Manhattan, sipping wine and nibbling on hors d'oeuvres amid the now-defunct gas pumps. The occasion was an exclusive party celebrating the opening of \"Sheep Station,\" a daring exhibition of 25 epoxy-and-bronze Mouton sculptures by French artist Fran\u00E7ois-Xavier Lalanne (1927\u20132008).\n\nPinterestFacebookA few of Lalanne's flock.\n\nThe flock can now be found grazing on a rolling lawn that was erected on-site for the show, organized by dealer Paul Kasmin and real-estate developer Michael Shvo. (The latter is eventually transforming the property into high-end residences.) It was a double-take-inducing display, sort of like a surrealistic petting zoo\u2014only minus the touching, which guards prohibited. Understandable, really: Just one of the iconic sculptures can fetch upwards of $200,000 at auction. And you thought the price of gas was high\u2026.\n\nPinterestFacebookThe station's new sign.\n\nThrough October 20, 2013; gettystation.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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