Lot 137
  • 137

Jean Ipousteguy b. 1920

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Robert Ipoustéguy
  • Le Fond du Rire
  • inscribed IPOVSTEGUY 1966 1/9 (on top of base to head, IPOUSTEGUY 966 (on back of base to head)
  • bronze with dark brown and varigated brown patina, in two sections
  • height: 21 3/4 in.
  • 55.2 cm
  • executed in 1966 in an edition of nine plus three artist's proofs

Provenance

Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Dominique Croiset-Veyre, Ipoustéguy, L'Ouevre Sculpté, Paris 2001, no. 184, p. 120, another cast illustrated p. 121
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