René Iché
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René Iché
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| Born |
21 January 1897 Sallèles-d'Aude |
| Died | 23 December 1954 (aged 57) Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Notable work | The Torn, Guernica |
| Movement | Modern art, Surrealism |
| Awards | Grand prix de Sculpture |
René Iché (21 January 1897 – 23 December 1954) was a 20th-century French sculptor.
René Iché was born in Sallèles-d'Aude, France. He fought in World War I, where he was injured and gassed. After the war, graduated in law, he changed his life and studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle and architecture with Auguste Perret. In 1927, his pacific monument of Ouveillan (a Monumental Modern portic in the South of France) was well received. During his first solo exhibition, at the art dealer Léopold Zborowski in 1931, two sculptures were acquired by the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris (now in the Centre Georges Pompidou) and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
Iché was a very good friend of Max Jacob, close to Guillaume Apollinaire, Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz, Zadkine and a childhood friend of Joë Bousquet. He sculpted the faces of André Breton,Paul Éluard and Federico García Lorca.
In his studio of Montparnasse, in 1937, he executed a Guernica sculpture on the day (27 April 1937) of the announcement of this event on the radio station. Upon completing the work he did not wish to exhibit it.
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