Valérie Courtet, Hippopotamus and crocodile, glazed stoneware sculpture

Valérie Courtet, signed.

Glazed stoneware sculpture figuring a stand crocodile on a hippopotamus.
The crocodile is green colored. The skin of its back, its head and its tail is indented and in relief with some small plates, in slightly iridescent green color. Its smooth belly is light green color. It has the huge jaws opened. It holds in its hands a small black bird with yellow nozzle and paws which raises its head to look at the crocodile and on the other hand a small light blue fish.
The hippopotamus is blue colored and it stand on its four legs.

French contemporary work.

Dimensions : H 80 x W 76 x D 25 cm.

Reference : OP470

Valérie Courtet is a French artist who learned with Jacques Peiffer, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, in the Saint-Jean l’Aigle de Longwy Manufacture, how to apprehend the terracotta, how to mold oven it then, finally, glazed it.
The Valerie Courtet animals might be represented alone or in group as here, to show bridges which can exist between different animals, improbable coexistences that happened before our eyes. She composed a scene with colors that animals offer and she adopts the motto “unity makes strength” thanks to her animals compositions welded each other by the enamel.

To know more about Valérie Courtet, click here.