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Cécile RaynalGoat by Cécile Raynal - Animal smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, fable, clay2025
2025
$9,813.76
£7,306.25
€8,280
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Goat is a unique smoke-fired stoneware, resin, plaster and clay sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 82 × 35 × 45 cm (32.2 × 13.7 × 17.7 in). This sculpture is unique and comes with an authenticity certificate.
The dimensions and weight refer to the sculpture only, the wood base is 35 x 45 x 45 cm (13.7 × 17.7 × 17.7 in) and weighs 30 kg. The sculpture can be sold with or without the wood base.
This sculpture depicts a goat sitting upright with its head held high. Between dark and ochre tones, the animal is sculpted with a lively and proud expression. The artist’s gestures remain visible on the surface, allowing the work to play with light and give the animal’s body a vibrant presence.
This piece is part of the sculptural installation Chœur de bêtes (Choir of Beasts), which brings together eleven animals arranged around a cephalophorous figure. Uniform in size yet defying natural scale, the animals strike sometimes surreal poses that heighten the enigmatic quality of the scene. Describing her work, 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; 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.”
Raynal has been developing Chœur de bêtes over several years, and it was recently featured in her solo exhibition À la table des Dames (At the Ladies’ Table) at Montivilliers Abbey in Normandy (2025). This historic site—long a place of life for women, nuns, and abbesses—served as the backdrop for a body of work that weaves together female portraits and animal figures. Raynal’s sculptures do not aim to charm; they are raw, sometimes unsettling, bearing the visible traces of their emergence from clay, from struggle. And yet, they stand—upright, animated. Her work evokes a world where the animal, the feminine, the instinctual, and the defiant are embraced as vital forces.
Cécile Raynal’s practice moves between her studio in Normandy and artist residencies on the margins of society—in prisons, hospitals, convents—where she creates clay portraits based on encounters with people she meets. Back in the studio, she deepens this approach, drawing from myths, fables, and literature to create hybrid beings—half-human, half-animal. Through these animal figures, Raynal invites viewers to reflect on a shared language between humans and beasts, a field of interaction where empathy, transformation, and alliance become possible.
- Creator:Cécile Raynal (1966, French)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 32.29 in (82 cm)Width: 13.78 in (35 cm)Depth: 17.72 in (45 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803116764032
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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