Lot 45: u - JEAN IPOUSTEGUY B. 1920

PROPERTY FROM THE PHILIP AND MURIEL BERMAN FOUNDATION

VAL DE GRÂCE

measurements
86 1/2 by 57 by 63 in.

alternate measurements
220 by 145 by 160 cm.

bronze, brown-black patina

cast in an edition of 8 plus 4 artist's proofs, beginning in 1977

LITERATURE

Dominique Croiset-Veyre, Ipoustéguy, l'Oeuvre Sculpté, Catalogue Raisonné 1938-2000, 2001, page 216, no. 345 (illustraion of another cast, page 217)

NOTE

This sculptural work was the artist's response to a commission from the French military, in 1977, for a monument on the theme of aid to the wounded soldier, to be installed in central Paris. However, the panel charged to review the commission rejected the work in a meeting in December of that year.
Five years later, during which period Ipousteguy's international reputation grew dramatically, the authorites reversed themselves and authorized the installation of the work on the base which had already been erected for it back in 1977.

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