Bronzes Drum Shaman Bear €5,200.00 I discovered at the flea market a very beautiful old photo of a Central Asian shaman wearing a bear skin, the animal's head covering his skull. I also remember a scene from a western by the Coen brothers “TRUE GRIT” in which we see a healer on horseback covered in bear skin emerge from a dark forest, a rather exceptional scene. These representations made... View
Bronzes Bear in Kamchatka €5,900.00 A revisited version of FISHING IN KAMCHATKA, this sculpture tells an additional story. KAMCHATKA is the ARCADIA of bears, as the salmon resource is inexhaustible there. A fisch escapes : no big deal, the fisherman looks at the fugitive with amusement. He returns home with a determined step to feed his family, like the bear MARTIN of the fairy tales. A nod... View
Private acquisitions The favorite of both A theme that I have often taken up, children and elephants pushing, pulling. The two little girls want to appropriate the same elephant who does not want to choose his playmate and is having fun with the situation. "Sophie Verger brings back images buried in our childhood memories and, beyond looking at what brings us so close to animals, invites us to... View
Bronzes Big horn to horn €32,000.00 The original bronze clay was presented for the first time in the remarkable garden of the Tool Museum at WIT DIT JOLI VILLAGE. The first bronze edition is now exhibited in the park of Château De Luynes, in the company of the BIG ACROBATS. It is an animal sculpture all in a circle punctuated by the play of horns, horns that poachers will not come and cut!... Add to cart
Private acquisitions Fishing in Kamchatka Kamchatka, the promised land of bears for salmon fishing! This sculpture is part of the "bear and fish" themed series that I'm still working on View
Private acquisitions Higher and higher A sculpture which can also be placed on a stone or steel base in a garden. View
Bronzes Great acrobats €76,500.00 On photo, 2/8 CPH bank collection Initially, a very large sandstone for the “Open Air Museum” exhibition – Musée Pompon in 2016. Three bronzes were produced, one for the CPH bank, the second for a private individual, the third for the Château de Luynes in Touraine It is an emblematic piece of my work produced in very large format. The roundness of the... Add to cart
Private acquisitions Column of lion cubs Creation 2006 that I still keep in my current creation because it is a sculpture of a rare presence. The bronze 1/8 will be presented for the first time at the CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR LILLE ART’UP by LA Galerie SEPTENTRION View
Private acquisitions Owl angel Ochre sandstone from the Owl Angels series Sculpture photographed here in the buyer's garden. Private acquisition View
Personal collection Georges Sand White sandstone from Normandy's Oise region Sculpture created for the bicentenary of George Sand's birth and exhibited for the occasion at the Cordeliers Convent in Châteauroux. Sculpture photographed here with Christiane Sand at the Gargilesse Castle, and in my garden. View
Museum acquisitions Lying down Sophie Verger make thecollections her own, right down to the astonishing false recumbent statue on display in the museum's central patio, blurring the lines between myth, archaeological reality and contemporary creation. (Extract from the "Sculptures en liberté" exhibition catalogue) Sandstone from Norman Oise Public collection of the VaL d'Oise... View
Museum acquisitions The octopus / my neighbour From one octopus to another The octopus had always haunted her. Among the many animal documentaries to be found on the web there are some that describe this animal as one of the most intelligent of marine life. In the human imagination, it is a very disturbing animal. Moreover she had sketched and then sculpted her into a somewhat bigoted woman, as if... View
Public acquisitions Big rider in Chantilly Unique work Acquisition by the town of Chantilly for the boardroom at Chantilly town hall View