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Cécile RaynalThe Suitcase by Cécile Raynal - Stoneware sculpture, suitcase, animals2024
2024
$6,985.39
£5,240.32
€5,880
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A$10,511.56
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The Suitcase is a unique smoke-fired stoneware sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 43 × 60 × 20 cm (16.93 × 23.62 × 7.87 in).
This sculpture is a unique piece signed by the artist and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
This sculpture was shown in À la table des Dames (At the Ladies’ Table), Cécile Raynal’s solo exhibition at Montivilliers Abbey in Normandy (2025). Presented in a historic site long inhabited by women, nuns, and abbesses, the works bring together portraits of women and animals. Raynal’s sculptures resist seduction; raw and sometimes unsettling, they reveal traces of struggle with matter, yet stand upright and vibrant. They evoke a universe where the animal, feminine, instinctive, and rebellious are embraced as vital forces. The exhibition, set in the restored Abbey, spans fifteen years of the French sculptor’s singular artistic journey (more details here).
Raynal’s practice moves between her Normandy studio and residencies in marginal places—prisons, hospitals, convents. There, she sculpts clay portraits drawn from encounters with the people she meets. Back in her studio, she expands this dialogue through myths, tales, and literary sources, creating animals and hybrid beings, half-human, half-animal. The animal figures in her work underscore a shared language and the deep interplay between humans and beasts.
- Creator:Cécile Raynal (1966, French)
- Creation Year:2024
- Dimensions:Height: 16.93 in (43 cm)Width: 23.63 in (60 cm)Depth: 7.88 in (20 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Paris, FR
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU803116805992
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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