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Cécile RaynalBadger by Cécile Raynal - Animal smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, fable, clay2025
2025
$9,970.66
£7,377.04
€8,280
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Badger is a unique smoke-fired stoneware, resin, plaster and clay sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 80 × 36 × 52 cm (31.5 × 14.1 × 20.4 in). This sculpture is unique and comes with an authenticity certificate. This piece depicts a badger standing on its hind legs, with its front paws joined in a dynamic gesture. It feels lively and energetic, both through the animal’s posture and the texture of the sculpture, which catches the light and draws the viewer’s eye.
This piece was conceived as part of the sculptural installation Chœur de bêtes (Choir of Beasts), which brings together eleven animals surrounding a cephalophorous figure. Uniform in size, the animals distort natural proportions and assume at times fantastical poses, enhancing the scene’s sense of mystery. Describing the installation, the artist writes: “Hybrid beasts and creatures, peoples, mass-culture: wolf, hare, fox, raccoon, goat, donkey, crow, feline, badger, world-tree, birder. So many motifs, subjects, metaphorical presences. […]
They embody other spirits, other imaginations, other ways of seeing, moving and being moved. The peoples of the beasts suffer us, deplore us, since always and everywhere, we fabulate them. They represent us, they duplicate us. […] So I model great silences between man and beast, envisaging possible alliances. The future is only possible in an alliance, a common field, an earthy and spiritual heart.”
The installation Chœur de bêtes (Choir of Beasts), a long-term artistic project, was exhibited as part of Cécile Raynal’s solo show À la table des Dames (At the Ladies’ Table) at Montivilliers Abbey in Normandy (2025). Set in a historic site that once housed generations of women, nuns, and abbesses, the exhibition brought together works that merge portraits of women with animal figures. Raynal’s sculptures are not meant to charm; they may even unsettle.
Rugged and expressive, they retain the imprint of matter and effort, yet stand upright—vivid, present. They evoke a realm where animality, femininity, instinct, and rebellion are honored as vital forces. Within the restored abbey, the exhibition traced fifteen years of the French sculptor’s singular creative journey (more information on the exhibition here).
Raynal’s artistic practice alternates between her Normandy studio and residencies in marginal, often overlooked places—prisons, hospitals, convents—where she sculpts clay portraits inspired by her exchanges with those she meets. Back in the studio, she expands upon these lived experiences, drawing from a wide reservoir of myths, folktales, and literary sources to create hybrid beings: part animal, part human. Through the presence of animals in her sculptures, Raynal invites viewers to recognize the silent dialogue and shared terrain between humans and beasts.
- Creator:Cécile Raynal (1966, French)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 31.5 in (80 cm)Width: 14.18 in (36 cm)Depth: 20.48 in (52 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803116738752
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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