Valérie Courtet, Rabbit and Tortoise, glazed stoneware sculpture

Valérie Courtet, signed.

Glazed stoneware sculpture figuring a rabbit sat on a tortoise back called “L’Hymne du Lent” (*Hymn of Slow).
The rabbit is white, represented with hairs around its neck and on its paws, large ears pink on the interior, black eyes and slightly bending its head on side.
The tortoise has skin covered by scales and geometrical motifs on the belly, in light brown color and slightly black in some areas. Its eyes are black and it slightly bended its head on the rabbit opposite side.

French contemporary work.

Dimensions : H 76 x W 55 x D 38 cm.

Reference : OP425

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.

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