Background
In the 1950s, at about the same time he turned from oil painting to sculpture and other media, the artist chose to add his mother"s maiden name, "Ipoustéguy", to his name, since "Robert" is a common surname in France.
In the 1950s, at about the same time he turned from oil painting to sculpture and other media, the artist chose to add his mother"s maiden name, "Ipoustéguy", to his name, since "Robert" is a common surname in France.
Studied painting and drawing in Paris in 1938, under Robert Lesbounit.
After World World War II, he earned his living creating frescos and stained glass windows for Saint-Jacques, Petit-Montrouge. In 1979, his largest sculpture, L"homme construit sa ville, was installed at the Congress Centre in Berlin. In 1982 Place Pradel, in Lyon.
In 1985 Arthur Rimbaud, in Paris In 1989 A la santé de la Révolution, in Bagnolet (France) In 1991, Nicolas Appert in Châlons en Champagne (France).
In 1999, Porte du Ciel, Braunschweig. In 2001 he set up in the church of Dun-sur-Meuse his sculpture Death of Bishop Neumann, produced in 1976.
She had been refused by the Americans. Ipoustéguy is buried at Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris.
1964, Bright Prize, Venice Biennale exhibition Abu Dhabi, National of Saadiyat Island.
Baltimore, Baltimore of Artist Berlin, Nationalgalerie. Bobigny, Fonds Départemental d’Art Contemporain.
Châlons en Champagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d"Archéologie.
Chicago, Art Institute. Copenhagen, Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Darmstadt, Hessiches Landesmuseum. Dun sur Meuse, Centre Ipoustéguy Grenoble, Musée d’Art Moderne.
Hannover, Sprengel London, Tate Gallery.
London, Victoria and Albert Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts. Marseille, Musée Cantini. Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria.
New York, The of Modern Artist
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim of Artist Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Paris, Musée de la Sculpture en Plein Air. Pittsburgh, The Carnegie Tokyo, Hakone of Artist
Toulouse, Artothèquebec
Troyes, Musée d’Art Moderne. Washington, Hirshhorn and Sculpture Garden.
