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Rating and artist's value Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle   

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle is an artist who worked with the female figure in the 20th century. She worked mainly in bronze, sculpting women in various postures.  

Today, prices for his works are soaring exponentially under auctioneers' gavels.

Her bronzes are particularly sought-after, with prices on the art market ranging from €135 to €21,000, a considerable delta but one that speaks volumes about the value that can be attributed to Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle's work.

In 2010, the bronze La passagère du vent sold for €20,000, whereas its estimate was between €3,000 and €5,000, suggesting a strong upside potential for the artist's works.

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Artist Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle's style and technique

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle's work is a celebration of feminine grace and sensuality, featuring figures imbued with gentleness and inner strength.

Her work is influenced by Asia: she studied in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Asian statuary has had a profound effect on her aesthetic, incorporating elements of Khmer sculpture and a quest for silence and balance.

She has traveled extensively, each country feeding her creations, giving her work an introspective and universal dimension.

She mainly sculpts softly curving female figures, often in bronze, capturing moments of contemplation and serenity.

The artist has also collaborated with Daum since 2005. She has transposed some of her works into crystal, exploring transparency and light, giving a new dimension to her sculptures.

Alongside her sculptural work, she also creates sanguine drawings, continuing her delicate exploration of the female body.

Her works are characterized by a refined simplicity, where every detail is carefully thought out to express the essence of femininity. The figures she creates exude an aura of meditation and quiet strength, inviting the viewer into silent contemplation.

The life of Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle was born in 1952 in Meknes, Morocco. She entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Pau in 1971, and continued her training for two years at the Faculté des Arts Plastiques in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where her father worked for the UN.

Since 1992, she has lived and worked in Bazarnes, Burgundy, in a house with the blonde stones that inspire her. Her sculptures and drawings are regularly exhibited in France and abroad, with several solo shows each year.
She has been honored by the "Greci Marino" International Academy in Italy.

Several of her works have become emblematic, such as Marianne de l'an 2000. That year, she was chosen to create the official bust of Marianne, embodied by Laetitia Casta. The mold is kept at the Louvre's molding workshop.
Works resulting from her collaboration with Daum are also highly prized (the artist has been working with Daum crystal since 2005, transforming some of her works into crystal sculptures).

His sculptures are now quoted on the auction market, alongside artists such as Isabelle Waldberg, Josiane Cantin and Anne-Marie Profillet.

Focus on La Suggestion, Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle

In Deville-Chabrolle's La Suggestion, the artist chose to depict a reclining female figure, leaning on her elbows, head thrown back, palm open. The work is at once introspective, sensual and theatrical.

Her body is relaxed yet expressive: the posture is not one of rest but of inner projection, the woman seems to be addressing a silence or absence. The movement seems suspended, the gesture of the open hand upward evokes an invocation, an offering or a silent whisper, reinforcing the title of the work.

By choosing this evocative title, La Suggestion, the artist invites us to feel and proposes an emotion without imposing it, without showing anything frontal or narrative.

The neck is tense, the muscles visible, contrasting with the delicacy of the fingers and the softness of the lines - a balance typical of the artist's work.

The figure is timeless: without precise cultural attributes, the sculpture takes on a universal, meditative dimension.

For this work, she works with a dark-brown patinated bronze, a warm, dense material that gently captures the light, each curve becoming a surface for reflection, from passage to visual.

The bronze finish is smooth and continuous, the modeling fluid and seamless, and the form follows the breath of the gesture. She demonstrates a real sense of anatomical detail, producing subtle work on the hands, the nape of the neck, the folds of the back, without ever falling into excessive naturalism.

This sculpture is far from being a simple decorative nude, but translates an internalized emotion, a silent presence. Here, too, we find the Khmer influence so dear to the artist: calm, concentration and the gesture that speaks.

This sculpture is a dialogue between space and suggestion, where the work doesn't give itself away entirely, but leaves room for the viewer, in a spirit of sensitive resonance.

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