Lot 175: u - JEAN IPOUSTEGUY B. 1920

PROPERTY FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

DAVID AND GOLIATH

measurements
installation dimensions variable. david: 47 5/8 by 23 1/4 by 24 3/8 in. 121 by 59 by 62 cm.

alternate measurements
goliath: 48 3/4 by 30 3/4 by 33 in. 124 by 77 by 84 cm.

David with incised signature Ipousteguy and numbered 5/6 (near the base); the largest element of Goliath with incised signature Ipousteguy, numbered 1/6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur PARIS (near the base)

bronze, black patina

Condition Note:

In generally very good condition.

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Executed in 1959; the different elements appear to have been issued separately and only one or two complete sets are known.

PROVENANCE

Estate of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zadok (acquired in 1983)

EXHIBITED

Paris, Salon de Mai (possibly another cast)
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Ipousteguy, 1962 (possibly another cast illustrated in catalogue)
Mountainville, New York, Storm King Art Center, Twentieth Century Sculpture: Selections for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 18, 1984 - May 4, 1987