![Sculpture, Clares I, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2198608_1_grid.jpg)
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Interrogation
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 38.5 x 29.5 x 11 cm Sculpture - 15.2 x 11.6 x 4.3 inch
$6,466
![Sculpture, Assaut, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2214621_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Verax, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136426_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Le bain du crépuscule, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/504071_1_grid.jpg)
Le bain du crépuscule
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 65 x 46 x 34 cm Sculpture - 25.6 x 18.1 x 13.4 inch
$14,304
![Sculpture, Grande tête de cheval, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2150819_1_grid.jpg)
Grande tête de cheval
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 47 x 29 x 28 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 11.4 x 11 inch
$6,534
![Sculpture, Codex 2, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1127988_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Clares IV, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2194195_1_grid.jpg)
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Le temps amassé
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 16 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
$2,609
![Sculpture, Racine, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2179966_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Clares IV -2/8, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1930278_1_grid.jpg)
Clares IV -2/8
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 37 x 23 x 17 cm Sculpture - 14.6 x 9.1 x 6.7 inch
$4,424
![Sculpture, Vénus assoupie, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1616547_1_grid.jpg)
Vénus assoupie
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 13 x 27 x 23 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 10.6 x 9.1 inch
$3,800
![Sculpture, La Raie, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1600533_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Genèse aux Bandelettes, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1600530_1_grid.jpg)
Genèse aux Bandelettes
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 20 x 16 x 17 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 6.3 x 6.7 inch
$2,949
![Sculpture, La parole et la vie, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1600512_1_grid.jpg)
La parole et la vie
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 13 x 16 x 10 cm Sculpture - 5.1 x 6.3 x 3.9 inch
$2,518
![Sculpture, Variation 1, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467945_1_grid.jpg)
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![Sculpture, Les Confidences, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/168073_1_grid.jpg)
Les Confidences
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 16 x 18 x 15 cm Sculpture - 6.3 x 7.1 x 5.9 inch
$2,609
![Sculpture, Coléoptère debout, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2181523_1_grid.jpg)
Coléoptère debout
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 23 x 20 x 2.5 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 7.9 x 1 inch
$1,361
![Sculpture, Codex V, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2183058_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Fantaisie 19, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/2136417_1_grid.jpg)
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Invitation à la danse
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 36 x 56 x 35 cm Sculpture - 14.2 x 22 x 13.8 inch
$9,245
![Sculpture, Griffon II, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/804255_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Génèse, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/471469_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, La fuite, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/314071_1_grid.jpg)
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Le miracle de l'eau
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 62 x 25 x 25 cm Sculpture - 24.4 x 9.8 x 9.8 inch
$8,848
![Sculpture, Klarex II, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1926507_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Dualité I (1), Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1930200_1_grid.jpg)
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Son cri c'est le tien
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 38 x 20 x 15 cm Sculpture - 15 x 7.9 x 5.9 inch
$3,970
![Sculpture, Elle...la rivière; lui... l'océan, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1262541_1_grid.jpg)
Elle...la rivière; lui... l'océan
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 56 x 39 x 17 cm Sculpture - 22 x 15.4 x 6.7 inch
$7,679
![Sculpture, La feuille, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1241001_1_grid.jpg)
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Corex - Petite sphinge
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 64 x 41 x 22 cm Sculpture - 25.2 x 16.1 x 8.7 inch
$7,600
![Sculpture, Codex IV, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/911226_1_grid.jpg)
![Sculpture, Codex 1, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/766143_1_grid.jpg)
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Les incertitudes du désir
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 30 x 32 x 25 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 12.6 x 9.8 inch
$4,991
![Sculpture, Regard Ancien, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/330307_1_grid.jpg)
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Son visage c'est la vie
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 43 x 39 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.9 x 15.4 x 7.9 inch
$5,899
![Sculpture, Méandres, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/678435_1_grid.jpg)
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Le vieux soldat
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 55 x 29 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 11.4 x 7.9 inch
$7,940
![Sculpture, Échec à César, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1380333_1_grid.jpg)
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Le vieux soldat
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 55 x 29 x 20 cm Sculpture - 21.7 x 11.4 x 7.9 inch
$7,940
![Sculpture, Andante moderato, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/569826_1_grid.jpg)
Andante moderato
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 47 x 42 x 36 cm Sculpture - 18.5 x 16.5 x 14.2 inch
$6,806
![Sculpture, Fleur d'écume, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1467963_1_grid.jpg)
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Sur une ligne d'elle
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 20 x 31 x 20 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 12.2 x 7.9 inch
$4,026
![Sculpture, Petit torse vert, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1949382_1_grid.jpg)
Petit torse vert
Bernard Métranve
Sculpture - 34 x 17 x 10 cm Sculpture - 13.4 x 6.7 x 3.9 inch
$1,928
![Sculpture, La Bienvenue, Bernard Métranve](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/252040_1_grid.jpg)
Biography
Bernard Métranve is a French artist born in the French Ardennes in 1949. After studying literature, he turned towards sculpture at a young age.
His long journeys in West Africa and South America (Costa Rica and Colombia) have influenced the techniques and the materials he uses. In Africa, he practiced mainly carving directly on wood and ceramic. In America and Europe, he preferred working in bronze. In 1989 he meet a skilled founder, Abel Marta, from the Susse Foundry in Paris, this meeting was a crucial moment because his work on bronze was greatly influenced from this meeting.
Bernard Metranve's artistic expression is at the boundary of abstraction. Through curves and contrasts, he questions the human's position in the environment, fundamental to the artist, it can be reassuring or scary. In the series « Errances » and « Les Processionnaires », he develops a reflexion about the human role in the chaos of the universe. The overlap of a natural object and a human object in the series « Cascades », « Rivières » and « Les Métamorphoses » also aims a reflexion.
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