The Great Family / La Grande Famille, 2026
Sculpture : bronze · 46 x 75 x 38 cm 18.1 x 29.5 x 15 inch
€17,600
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About the artwork
Type
Sculpture : numbered and limited to 12 copies
1 copy available
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
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Signature
Artwork signed in the mold
Technique & Support
bronze , without pedestal
Dimensions ( cm • inch )
46 x 75 x 38 cm 18.1 x 29.5 x 15 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
A family is not just the place where you come from. It is the place where you feel at home.
In The Great Family, Sophie Verger offers us something deeply precious: a family of elephants, each with its own personality, its own tenderness, its own little story. Together, they compose a joyful gathering full of life, affection, and that incomparable softness we feel when surrounded by those we love.
In the savanna, a group of elephants advances: two adults and four young ones. The largest lifts its trunk to keep the little one balanced on its back. The matriarch encourages one of the playful young elephants. They are joyful, proud to exist, advance in interaction with each other, like in a procession. The group moves toward a lasting future, the offspring is well assured!
Observe them attentively, and you will discover the poetry of their gestures. A little elephant follows its elders, another seems to stop in mischievous curiosity, while the largest proudly lifts its trunk, as if to announce that the whole world belongs to them. Each figure seems alive, and each relationship tells us something about the beauty of belonging to a family.
What makes this work particularly touching is its freedom. Each elephant can be presented individually or gathered with the others to form a family full of joy, allowing the collector to create a personal composition that evolves over time. Like in a real family, they can stay close, move away for a moment, and then reunite. Their arrangement then becomes a small reflection of life itself.
Sophie Verger's bronze sculptures possess that rare ability to awaken our most tender memories. They speak to us of childhood, shared adventures, the reassuring presence of those who advance alongside us. The Great Family celebrates a love that does not need words—a gentle reminder that our greatest treasures are often the bonds we weave and the beings with whom we share our path.
This is a collection to be lived, reinvented, rediscovered again and again. A heartfelt invitation to welcome at home not just a set of sculptures, but a family overflowing with warmth, character, and soul.
Because the most beautiful journeys are the ones we take together.
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This is a composition of four bronzes in one to celebrate family.
They can be mounted.
I preferred to leave them "free" allowing each to evolve the composition as they wish.
Latest creation of 2026
One edition is directly available exclusively at the Art Yi gallery in Brussels.
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Creation by a French artist and made in a Belgian foundry.
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If this work resonates with you, our gallery will be delighted to send you more information, additional images in natural light, or to advise you on its installation in your space.
Presentation
Sophie Verger was born in Paris in 1953. As a teenager, she attends The Academy of La Grande Chaumière and evening classes at Montparnasse 80. After a while, during 1970, she prepares the university entrance examination for Schools of Art in Paris at the Academy of Art Roedrer, place des Vosges. In 1971, she starts Nissim de Camondo school where she discovers sculpture during drawing workshops at the Bourdelle Museum and takes the exam at School of Fine Arts of Paris. She meets there Etienne Martin who deeply encourages her in this way and follows a classic education at the Favrat Studio.
Afterward and during several years , she opens a Studio where she models, draws, and organizes exhibitions. In 1991, first exhibition in Paris at the Colette Dubois gallery. Amazed by the exhibition at the Louvre on german sculpture of the XVth century, she begins a diversion work by modelling virgins with heads of animals dressed in big drapes which will be exposed en1995 for the Whistable festival in Great Britain. Series of shields come later from 1996. She creates, at that time, among others, a piling of timeless warriors inspired by Craonne song. This piece is presented in 1999 at Lineart of Ghent. Then is born the serie of eggs, eggs which explode, releasing characters with wide eyes opened.
A first large-scale exhibition takes place in 1999 at Grouchy Castle for whom Jeannine Rivais writes an article. A second exhibition takes place at Rope factory, a former factory located to Etaples, near Touquet.
In 2000 she wins a Public Award for the exhibition "Sculpture and garden" in Lille on the animal theme, which becomes little by little for her an inexhaustible source of inspiration, strengthened by its meeting with Caroline Corre and the thematic exhibition"animal". She edits her first bronzes. The Got gallery presents its work. First personal exhibition abroad in Brussels in 2001 in the Antic and Art gallery and first exhibition at the Pompon Museum in 2003. The same year, the Lise Cormery gallery, will exposed her first rhinoceros.
At the MAC exhibitions in 2003 and 2005, she establishes a deep professional network which allow her to widen her representativeness. Several municipalities acquire her works. Daniel Boulanger, met through the Gilbert Dufois gallery writes on his work. In 2008, she exposes for the first time in Germany, then at the Burgerweshuis of Zierikzee in Netherlands. Then, several exhibitions will follow. Today, she is preparing an exhibition that will occur in Paris in June, 2014 both in two places: one at the main courtyard of Sorbonne (face to the Pantheon) and at Lise Cormery gallery , Lanneau street.
Her work is now present in collections deprived in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium and Netherlands.
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