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Cécile RaynalArbre-monde III by Cécile Raynal - sandstone sculpture, pigments, birds, tree2021
2021
$9,084.60
£6,881.79
€7,800
CA$12,585.48
A$14,115.46
CHF 7,392.05
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NOK 93,866.61
SEK 88,992.16
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Arbre-monde III is a unique smoke-fired sandstone sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 85 × 44 × 25 cm (33.4 × 17.3 × 9.8 in).
This sculpture is a unique piece signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
This highly narrative sculpture depicts a tree inhabited by various symbolic elements perched among its branches—birds, a wolf, a hare, and even a human hand. In recent years, animals have become increasingly prominent in Cécile Raynal’s artistic universe:
"All kinds of beasts and hybrid forms populate my work. Chimeras, constructed by elective affinities between animal figures and human," she writes in Memories of Embers (Éditions Privat, 2018).
More recently, however, the vegetal world has found a place in her sculptures, through representations of trees or the “vegetalization” of human and animal forms with branching elements. This evolution plays a central role in the present work.
“The title of this series naturally echoes the novel by Richard Powers. These sculptures are portraits of trees encountered along the roads of Occitanie. Transfigured, they speak to our own emotional ties to trees.” — Cécile Raynal
At the heart of Raynal’s practice lies an exploration of relationships—between individuals, between men and women, and between humans and animals. Through the presence of animal forms, she draws attention to the shared language and subtle interactions that connect human and non-human beings, revealing invisible threads woven into daily life.
The photographs were taken during Raynal’s solo exhibition À la table des Dames (At the Ladies’ Table) at Montivilliers Abbey in Normandy (2025).
- Creator:Cécile Raynal (1966, French)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 33.47 in (85 cm)Width: 17.33 in (44 cm)Depth: 9.85 in (25 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803116709872
Cécile Raynal
Whether human or animal, Cécile Raynal’s figures are a way to explore the world. The artist travels to remote, forgotten or marginal places immortalising in clay life stories that she brings back to her studio. Her work has been exhibited in prestigious museums such as the Musée des Arts et Métiers (Paris, 2018) and is the subject of ambitious public commissions such as the bronze sculpture of Winston Churchill in Cap-d’Ail (France). “The result of chance or sought-after encounters, my work starts with the sculpted portrait, a totemic record of each of these confrontations, and builds itself on the complicity, the exchanges and the correspondence resulting from them.”
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