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Cécile RaynalDonkey by Cécile Raynal - Animal smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, fable, clay2025
2025
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Donkey is a unique smoke-fired stoneware, resin, plaster and clay sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 82 × 60 × 60 cm (32.2 × 23.6 × 23.6 in). This sculpture is unique and comes with an authenticity certificate. This piece depicts a donkey sitting on its hind legs with a sharp, alert gaze. The donkey appears ready to stand up; it is dynamic and lively. Between dark grey and ochre, these colors enhance the play of light on the surface and draw the viewer’s attention.
This piece is part of the sculptural installation Chœur de bêtes (Choir of Beasts), a work that brings together eleven animals surrounding a cephalophorous figure. Similar in size, the animals break from natural scale and often assume surreal, exaggerated postures that heighten the mystery of the scene. 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, lament us — from always, from everywhere, we fabulate them. They represent us, they mirror us. […] So I model great silences between man and beast, imagining possible alliances. The future exists only in alliance — in a shared space, a terrestrial and spiritual heart.”
Chœur de bêtes, a long-term project by Cécile Raynal, was recently exhibited in her solo show À la table des Dames (At the Ladies’ Table), held at the Montivilliers Abbey in Normandy (2025). Presented in this historic space — once home to women, nuns, and abbesses — the installation dialogues with a broader body of work that pairs female portraits with animal forms. Raynal’s sculptures are not made to charm; at times, they even unsettle. Raw and unpolished, they carry the traces of their making — shaped through matter, shaped through ordeal — and yet they rise, animated. They evoke a world where the animal, feminine, instinctive, or defiant is not repressed but embraced as a vital, animating force.
The exhibition at the restored Abbey traces fifteen years of Raynal’s distinctive artistic journey. Dividing her time between her studio in Normandy and residencies in marginal places — prisons, hospitals, convents — she creates clay portraits inspired by encounters with those she meets in these settings. Back in the studio, she deepens this process by drawing from a wide array of tales, myths, and literary sources, giving life to sculptures of animals and hybrid beings — part human, part beast. Through these creatures, Raynal invites viewers to explore a shared language, revealing the subtle interplay between the human and the animal worlds.
- Creator:Cécile Raynal (1966, French)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 32.29 in (82 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)Depth: 23.63 in (60 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803116742902
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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