Bronzes Louise at the zoo, version 2 €5,800.00 This confrontation between the powerful animal from prehistoric times and the small, fragile but fearless human remains a favourite theme for me.It's an image that works in many people's imaginations. How can we understand this? Is it the fascination that the animal world holds for us, both close and mysterious in our 'civilised' eyes?Our ancestors,... View
Bronzes Two children and a baby elephant €3,400.00 In an African park, there are no borders between children whether they were born with two or four legs, with or without a trunk !. The important thing is to have fun! A revisit of the "Sokatira" theme View
Bronzes Benbezela €5,500.00 « Bembeleza » means “tickle” in swahili, in KENYA. It's a animal sculpture that I wanted to be joyful and tender, the game between an adult and their child. I see myself with one of my grandchildren...Animal sculpture for all the parents and grandparents of the world!!! View
Bronzes The Swing €4,500.00 “The pendulum is thrown,Our absent minded fellow, staggered, stretched out his arms, and fell.He broke his nose, and everyone laughed." Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian I reinvented the fable with this elephant bronze. My baby elephants are under the supervision of a caring adult; They don't fall and have fun. Part of the series of acrobatic elephants statues. View
Bronzes From trunk to trunk €5,800.00 An emblematic theme that I definitely cannot leave! Rounded shapes, erect trunk supporting a baby in balance, smiles, everything contributes to optimism! A beautiful earthen patina on red-brown backgrounds created by Yves Cabasson magnifies the all peace. View
Bronzes The waltz €12,000.00 Two elephants waltz lightly, their“leaf” ears in the wind. I call them internally Baucis and Philémon as I call the hornbeam with two intertwined, “braced” trunks in my garden. Perhaps Zeus, who transformed these two old people in love into a tree, visited my studio, but I don't really believe in this honor! The Lalanne’s sculptures also often mixed... View
Bronzes Elephant Jump! €9,500.00 Lots of fun making this joyful sculpture with a strong presence.The little one jumps enthusiastically on the back of its mother or father, symbolizing the passage from one generation to the next.The adult's gaze is benevolent, ensuring that the child's reception on the ground is gentle.Something for us, humans to meditate... Slate gray patina with lighter... View
Museum acquisitions Sacred boat €8,500.00 Five elephants descend The Nile on a crocodile. A voyage in time and space. Brown patina with a lighter background. Pedestal brass, base black/brown. Sculpture created for the exhibition « Bêtes a Musée »Acquisition of the Powerlong Art Museum Shangaï View
Bronzes Tender Games €7,500.00 Acrobatic games between “father-mother” and child. One of my favorite sculptures on which I worked a lot on the shape of the trunks which delicately touch each other. A variation of acrobatic elephants with knowing looks. Silver nitrate patina View
Bronzes Great acrobats €76,500.00 On photo, 2/8 CPH bank collection Initially, a very large sandstone for the “Open Air Museum” exhibition – Musée Pompon in 2016. Three bronzes were produced, one for the CPH bank, the second for a private individual, the third for the Château de Luynes in Touraine It is an emblematic piece of my work produced in very large format. The roundness of the... Add to cart
Private acquisitions Elephant and his little girl A return to an emblematic theme in a larger format: The encounter between an elephant and a little girl, a moment of shared wonder andtenderness.Slate gray patina Sold out View
Bronzes The three bronze Eves €44,000.00 This large stoneware piece was presented in 2014 as part of the exhibitions "MUSEE A CIEL OUVERT" in Saulieu, "EQUILIBRE" in the Cour d'Honneur of the Sorbonne- Panthéon and during a ‘Printemps de la Sculpture in Chantilly.. A collector friend commissioned me to cast a bronze. The foundryman applied a patina very close to the original savannah-colored... Add to cart
Bronzes Giraffe and her greyhound €4,100.00 Curved sculpture. I took over from a theme used in fashion! But there's no haute couture dress, but a very fine harmony between a recurring character in my imagination and my whippet dog named Edha. Tawny patina View
Private acquisitions Sokatira plus one « Sokatira » means “Jeu de la corde” in the Basque language. (Tug of War in English). The sculpture was designated to be exhibited at the Oeil de Price Gallery in Biarritz. For the birth of her third child, a collectioner at the Claudine Legrand Gallery asked that a third elephant calf be added to the first ” Sokatira”. This gave birth to a second... View
Bronzes Giraffe and her doll €5,900.00 During the Jean -Joseph Carriès exhibition at the Petit Palais, I was very touched by a terracotta “L'Infante” representing a little girl clutching her puppet to the point of breaking it, a fitting expression of the innocently destructive side from childhood. The idea of the theme of the little girl and her toy came back to me one evening and I modeled... View
Bronzes Five Young Ladies €3,900.00 Five young ladies, friends or sisters, tenderly entwined chatting together. I have played on the sharing of their glances to animate the group. It will soon be a dozen years that I have worked on these anthropomorphic giraffes in parallel with my other creations. Expressing womanhood. View
The Studio Embarcation to Kythira Every new exhibition is an adventure. For the catalogue of the Musée de la Côte d’Opale, Christopher, the graphic designer, wanted the photographs taken on the beach in order to illustrate the title of the exhibition Bêtes à Musée, Sculptures in the Open Air. The photographic technique scared me and recreating an atmosphere around my sculptures was a real... View
Bronzes Girafe enceinte €19,000.00 As a child, I was already much bigger than the other children and “giraffe” was my nickname in the school playground. In fact, this resemblance pleased me. This peaceful animal has a lanky grace, airy and wild and with large soft eyes. It is one of the rare animals which dates back to prehistoric times and one with which we can identify emotionally.... Add to cart
Bronzes Giraffe with jewels €18,000.00 This young giraffe woman with a proud bearing has adorned herself with necklaces and bracelets to come to meet us, one might think. The rings encircling her neck represent for me the social pressure that she transcends with her elegance.Lady Georgiana Cavendish beautifully painted by Gainsborough said that men had left women only their toilets as a means... Add to cart
Clays The three Eves A mother carries her two daughters on her back. It’s up to everyone to imagine what they contemplate together, peacefully, in a beautiful visionary impulse. A better future for their sisters? I like this sentence from Jean Giraudoux: “Adam firmly believes that he was chased out of the earthly paradise. Eve is not sure at all, and acts, in any case, as if... View
Museum acquisitions Lying down Sophie Verger make thecollections her own, right down to the astonishing false recumbent statue on display in the museum's central patio, blurring the lines between myth, archaeological reality and contemporary creation. (Extract from the "Sculptures en liberté" exhibition catalogue) Sandstone from Norman Oise Public collection of the VaL d'Oise... View