Sophie de Fournas

Through the drawings of the painter EDGAR DEGAS, Sophie de Fournas finds an infinite source of inspiration for her sculptures. The NUS occupy a primordial place in the universe of Degas as in his own. These naked women entering or leaving the BATH, find themselves in their deepest intimacy, in their care, their toilet... This energy as a form of MEDITATION helped her to concentrate on HEALING, then on CONSOLATION after sickness and finally on BLISS. Each of the statues in this series expresses the interiority of the body and the spirit but also the fusion with its own feelings and rediscovered needs!

Sophie de Fournas comes from a family passionate about Painting and Sculpture. His great-grandmother Aary-Max was a sculptor (awarded at the INDEPENDENTS) and a poet. His great-grandfather was an art collector. He was thus the first gallery owner of CHAGALL. In the newspaper "Rapide" of March 14, 1911 "Our Toulouse artists will again be worthily represented this year at the National Exhibition of the Grand Palais which will open soon in Paris. This delicate sculptor Aary-Max exposes two statues which will not fail to attract attention by the safety of the lines the precision of the model and the truth of the attitudes…. Aary-Max exhibited two years in a row at the INDEPENDENTS where his success was real…."

It is quite naturally that she feels the need to revive and honor the ancients and especially Degas whom she admires specifically for these naked women drawn and worked tirelessly.

Today, her art is still figurative... Fascinated and passionate about the human being and more particularly the Woman, she works by seeking to touch the expression, the humanity, the intimacy and the emotion that it clear. During a long period, most of his sculptures were in patinated terracotta, worked with patience and precision, from live models for many years, then from photos, now from drawings. Today, she devotes herself primarily to bronze, which gives her terracotta another dimension and gives her the joy of applying different color variations thanks to the oxidation of nitrates worked with a blowtorch.