Indeed, the “Hymn to life, hymn to joy” that Judith Devaux would have singing through his sculptures is what guided my grandfather Eduard Marcel Sandoz throughout his life of curiosity, projects and joie de vivre, which ended, early in his 90th year, when he simply forgot to wake up.

Soon after this first meeting, her Vulture in bronze was selected by the board of the first Naturalist Artists Salon at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris; this piece of work was met with great success. With time, her technique has developed and has acquired maturity.

ODIOT opens up its universe to an assertive artist by commissioning the animal sculptor Judith Devaux for the creation of a hooded falcon which decorates this basket. From Judith Devaux’s long work of observation emerges a truth, expressed by a synthetic approach of shape which favours an exactness in the attitude and from which springs out the vital spirit of the work