Lot 58
  • 58

Jean Robert Ipoustéguy

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Robert Ipoust�guy
  • La Femme au Bain (Woman in the Bath)
  • polished bronze, in 7 parts
  • Overall: 53 by 78 by 54 in.
  • 134.6 by 198.1 by 137.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1966, this work is from number 5 from the edition of 8. Published by Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris.

Provenance

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1972

Exhibited

Art Institute of Chicago, Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, 1967
New York, Allan Frumkin Gallery, May 3 - 27, 1967
Pittsburgh, Museum of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh International of Painting and Sculpture, October 1967 - January 1968 (another example exhibited)
Darmstadt, Kunsthalle, Ipoustéguy, October - November 1969, no. 26, p. 44, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Berlin, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Jean Ipoustéguy, 1992

Condition

This work is in good and sound condition overall. There are scattered unobtrusive abrasions. There is oxidation present in some of the crevices. There are handling marks to the patina throughout.
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