Winner of the 2007 E.M. Sandoz Prize, Judith Devaux is one of our greatest contemporary sculptors.
Trained at the Ecole Boulle for modelling and drawing, she also studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre, concluding by a brilliant thesis on the techniques of sculpture in ancient Egypt.

The softness sculpture and precise lines of the Egyptians are reflected both in her way of working and in the choice of her feathered models like geese, cranes, ducks etc... Her purpose is not the photographic reproduction of the animal but the portrait of a specific animal that has been observed and studied for a long time. With a studio directly in the Jardin des Plantes, Devaux was able to study the models she lived with very closely, and it was this that earned her early recognition from her peers with the award of the Sandoz Prize, the highest prize for animal sculpture.

She sees her work as a hymn to joy, to life, and that's how we receive it.