Louis de Verdal Art for Sale and Sold Prices

b. 1948 -

Louis de Verdal is a sculptor, French designer, born September 12, 1948 in Sousceyrac in the Lot department.

Graduated from the Meymac Forestry School (Corrèze) in 1968, he traveled in the equatorial forests of Gabon until 1975, where he worked as a forester.

He returned to France and left the wood industry, he became a full-time sculptor and was affiliated with the House of Artists from 1983.

He moved first to Lentillac (common Latouille-Lentillac) and since 2000 to Saint-Céré.

Since 1981, he has exhibited throughout France as well as in Germany, Belgium and the United States.

In 1985, he undertook to realize his first life-size motorcycle in various woods and in 1986 received the prize of the Crafts of Art of the General Council of the Lot for the realization of this one. The same year, at Golfe Juan, he took part in the exhibition Espace d'une vision with about forty artists including Philippe Hicquily, Guy de Rougemont, Marcel van Thienen, Hervé Bourdin, Michel Raimbaud, Alain Vuillemet ... thus having the opportunity to meet Caesar for the first time come as a visitor.


In the years 1985 to 2001, he made sculptures in participation in shows events Street Art for the company Générik Vapeur in Aurillac, Clichy, Marseille, Cannes, Plougastel-Daoulas, Bordeaux.

In 1987, he participated in an exhibition Arborescence, looks of 50 contemporary artists on the forest and wood, organized by the Ministry of Agriculture at the City Hall of Paris where he met the artists Etienne Martin and Jack Vanarsky.

In 1990, he made his first life-size car, a Peugeot 203, which exhausts a whole year of work and for which he won the 1st prize at an exhibition on car art The checkers of the centenary in Rouen in 1994 while There would be many artists, including Cesar, with one of his cuts.