21st Century
French artist and sculptor Marine de Soos specializes in creating contemporary bronze sculptures inspired by her childhood memories in Africa and extensive travels throughout Asia.
Born in Paris in 1967, de Soos spent most of her childhood years living with her family in Africa. While exploring the African continent, she learned about its people's ancient traditions and cultures — an experience that fuels her artistic inspiration to this day.
After returning to France, de Soos pursued a career in marketing before she shifted her focus toward sculpture. In 1991, she trained with American master sculptor Jonathan Hirschfeld.
Following her studies with Hirschfeld, de Soos established her studio, where she focused on creating figurative sculptures, nude sculptures and outdoor monumental lost-wax bronze sculptures — an ancient process that sees a duplicate bronze sculpture cast from an original sculpture.
De Soos’s human forms often encapsulate emotion and movement through a subtle gesture — be it a turn of the head, a specific positioning of a hand or how a foot is placed on a sculpture’s base. For instance, in Getting Close to the Sky, de Soos captures a father holding his child up and over his head — the patriarch’s expression is one that is characterized by joy and wonder — while in Babbling, the artist depicts an intimate moment of a mother conversing with her baby. Elsewhere, de Soos mines the animal kingdom for inspiration, creating sculptures of African elephants, playful baboons, graceful camels or India’s sacred cows.
De Soos has regularly exhibited her sculptures at shows and galleries throughout Europe since 1999. Her works feature in numerous collections, including the L’Oreal global headquarters in Clichy, the French Embassy in New Delhi, Primo Piano at the Bon Marché in Paris and Le Chabichou Hotel and Spa in Courchevel.
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Tree With Children by Marine de Soos - bronze sculpture of children playing
By Marine de Soos
Located in Paris, FR
Tree With Children (Arbre aux Enfants) is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos. It represents three young boys climbing a tree. This sculpture is part of t...
Bronze
With the Wind by Marine de Soos - Contemporary Bronze Sculpture, Treehouses
By Marine de Soos
Located in Paris, FR
With the Wind (Au gré des vents) is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 87 × 70 × 63 cm (34.3 × 27.6 × 24.8 in). The sculpture is signed ...
Bronze
Arbre-monde III by Cécile Raynal - sandstone sculpture, pigments, birds, tree
By Cécile Raynal
Located in Paris, FR
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...
Sandstone
Confabulations by Marine de Soos - Bronze sculpture, figurative, dark tones
By Marine de Soos
Located in Paris, FR
Confabulations is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 37.5 × 16 × 8.5 cm (14.8 × 6.3 × 3.3 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it ...
Bronze
World-tree IV by Cécile Raynal - Smoke-fired stoneware sculpture, nature, branch
By Cécile Raynal
Located in Paris, FR
World-tree IV is a unique Smoke-fired stoneware and pigments sculpture by French contemporary artist Cécile Raynal, dimensions are 90 × 70 × 55 cm (35.4 × 27.6 × 21.7 in). With the...
Stoneware, Pigment
Grand cantique des pilotis by Marine de Soos - Large outdoor bronze sculpture
By Marine de Soos
Located in Paris, FR
Grand cantique des pilotis is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 330 × 168 × 134 cm (129.9 × 66.1 × 52.8 in). The sculpture is signed an...
Bronze
Patinated Bronze Baobab Tree Sculpture with Birds, Signed TM, 1980s
Located in DE KWAKEL, NL
A playful and highly decorative bronze sculpture depicting a baobab tree inhabited by numerous birds. Cast in bronze and finished with a beautifully developed green patina, the work ...
Bronze
Acrobats, Modern Bronze Sculpture by Peter Rockwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Rockwell (1936 - 2020) Title: Acrobats Year: 1968 Medium: Bronze Sculpture, signature engraved Size: 18 in. x 14 in. x 10 in. (45.72 cm x 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm)
Bronze
Paradise Tree, Bronze Sculpture by Volodymyr Mykytenko, 2013
By Volodymyr MYKYTENKO
Located in Zofingen, AG
Volodymyr Mykytenko - Paradise tree (2013) Paradise tree - a biblical image from the Book of Genesis, a tree in the middle of the Garden of Eden, the fruits of which give eternal li...
Bronze
Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Bronze Sculpture of Weeping Tree by Artist Bijan
By Bijan
Located in St. Louis, MO
Mid-Century Modern bronze sculpture by the international artist Bijan. Mounted on a natural piece of quartz, elegant weeping willow tree has 11 branches, with each branch having 6 se...
Quartz, Bronze, Copper
Garden and landscape sculpture titled 'Climbmate'
By RinDesign
Located in London, GB
'Climbmate' is a beautiful garden and landscape substantial sculpture. Standing tall at two meters this stunning artwork piece took over five months to create with much attention t...
Bronze
Woman Lying Down & Growing with Tree bronze sculpture by Yulla Lipchitz
Located in Hudson, NY
Organic, abstract bronze sculpture by Yulla Lipchitz of a woman lying down with a tree. About this artist: Yulla Lipchitz, née Halberstadt, was born on April 21, 1911 in Berlin, Ge...
Bronze
Part of Alejandro Vega Beuvrin’s “Barricada” series, the work is a subversive tribute to the street smarts of citizen activists.
Part art, part seating, they offer a fascinating meditation on life’s dualities.
