Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy
French · 1920–2006 · Painter, Printmaker
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, a figurative French sculptor, was born Jean Robert in Dun-sur-Meuse. His artwork had a distinct style, combining abstract elements with the human… (Wikipedia)
Own a work by Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy? Get a free auction estimate →
Record prices
Untitled (Torso)Wright · $4,063≈ £2,670≈ €3,614Sign up to see
BrasLos Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) · $3,438≈ £2,680≈ €3,030Sign up to see
Hand of Creation (Four-part sculpture)Bonhams · $600≈ £397≈ €546Sign up to see
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy, a figurative French sculptor, was born Jean Robert in Dun-sur-Meuse. His artwork had a distinct style, combining abstract elements with the human figure, often in the écorché style of French anatomists. The American writer John Updike once wrote that he "may be France's foremost living sculptor, but he is little known in the United States". He and other critics noted sharp contrasts between rough and smooth, abstract and realistic, tender and violent, delicate and crude, and many other paired oppositions in his artwork, and his recurrent themes of sex, birth, growth, decay, death, and resurrection. Ipoustéguy was unafraid to depict emotional intensity in a sometimes controversial way; several of his major commissioned works were rejected, but later installed as planned, or in other locations.
Excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also known as Ipoustéguy, Jean Ipostéguy, Jean Ipoustéguy, Jean Robert Ipoustéguy
Works in museum collections
Open-access images (public domain, CC0 or CC BY) from museum collections, each shown with its credit line and licence.
Wikimedia Commons ↗
CC0 · Benoît Prieur, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), The Met Open Access (CC0). See data sources & attribution.