Michel Bassompierre

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Michel Bassompierre, Grand Master of Contemporary Sculpture, the animal sculptor who gives life to bronzes and marbles.

Michel Bassompierre is one of the most important artists in the field of contemporary animal sculpture. He breathed into this discipline a singular and new style recognizable at first sight. Seductive and endearing, his work has traveled the world, releasing his bestiary of marble and bronze to the four corners of the globe. 

Trained in the studio of René Lelu at the School of Fine Arts in Rouen, Michel Bassompierre learned to look. These are kilos of sketches that he makes and through which he builds his understanding of the body of the animal, this skillfully articulated machine whose line and movement he captures. It is precisely this life that he manages to bring out, making his work so sensitive. In line with François Pompon, Michel Bassompierre gets rid of the anecdote to get to the point.