Lot 137: JEAN IPOUSTEGUY B. 1920

LE FOND DU RIRE

measurements
height: 21 3/4 in.

alternate measurements
55.2 cm

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

Condition Note: overall good condition, minor wear to patina at extremities, a few scattered minor dings

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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