Era filla de inmigrantes romaneses. Pasou a maior parte da súa infancia en Constanza, Romanía, antes de trasladarse a París. Viaxou e pintou durante anos antes de descubrir a fotografía. O seu traballo é descrito coma erótico.

a. Live bidding through auction platforms will be oncharged with additional 3 -- 5 % auction platform fee. From Irina Ionesco, some will remember the legal-family episode that cannot be ignored. For others, it will be the asserted or underlying eroticism in all of her work, the exaltation of the image of women, the search for her own identity as a woman and artist. We will also remember her attempt at resilience with her most introspective work “Baby Jane”. All objects put up for Auction can be viewed and examined prior to the Auction at the times made known. Greatest care is taken with the Catalogue descriptions, these however do not grant legal guarantee. The objects are second-hand. The condition, unless otherwise stated, is good and appropriate to the age. Descriptions in the Catalogue are neither assured conditions as defined by § 434, sect. 1 BGB, new wording, nor an assured guarantee as defined by § 443, sect. 1 BGB, new wording. The Auctioneer is not liable for defects as far as he observed due care incumbent on him for description of objects to be auctioned. Traces of previous ownership (Book-plates, signatures, stamps) as well as signs of fair wear and tear (missing clasps, yellowing paper) are not necessarily specifically mentioned. No claims will be accepted in respect of these and they are usually (but not necessarily) included in the Catalogue with the indication of not collated items such as collections (Sammlungen, Konvolute) and "oRR./Waf." (ohne Reklamationsrecht / sold with all faults). Ionesco published numerous books featuring her works. In 2004 she published a memoir, L'œil de la poupée. Irina Ionesco foi quizais máis famosa polas súas imaxes mostrando a súa propia filla adolescente, Eva. Os espidos que caracterizou con Eva, provocaron controversia, xa que moitas destas imaxes mostraban unha adolescente en poses artísticas e eróticas; de maneira similar a outros traballos nos que os modelos, porén, si eran adultos.

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Irina Ionesco is most famous for her photographs showcasing her young daughter, Eva. Ionesco began taking photographs of her daughter when she was four years old in 1969 though she did not display them publicly or gain prominence for her works until 1974. The nudes she created with Eva were immediately controversial as Eva was posed in the same manner as Ionesco's much older models. Ionesco notably photographed Eva nude for the cover of Der Spiegel which was later expunged from the magazine's records and also allowed pictures she took of Eva to appear in the Spanish edition of Penthouse. [4] Ionesco also allowed her daughter to appear nude for other photographers, including Jacques Bourboulon. [5]

Born in 1935, died in 2022 in Paris. Of Romanian parents, Irina Ionesco left France at the age of four to join her grandmother in Constanza in Romania. She returned to Paris in 1948, fleeing the Soviet occupation. At the age of sixteen, she started dancing and performed a contortionist act accompanied by snakes on the stages of all the major cities in Europe. In 1958, forced to abandon this life as an acrobat, she began to draw and paint. It was in 1964 that her friend the painter Corneille gave her a camera. This is how Irina begins to photograph places that have been inhabited by women who would be her double. She photographs the women she met and her daughter Eva. In 1974, her exhibition at the Nikon Gallery in Paris caused a sensation, a real starting point for a career rich in exhibitions and publications. In 1984, Irina embarked on introspective work by projecting herself in Robert Aldrich’s film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”, a work presented for the first time at the Galerie Vrais Rêves in 1992. In 1974 she exhibited some of her work at the Nikon Gallery in Paris and attracted lots of attention. She was soon published in numerous magazines, books, and featured at galleries across the globe.Na meirande parte do seu traballo, Irina vestía as mulleres de maneira extravagante, adornadas con xoias, guantes e outros artigos de luxo. Mais tamén as adornaba con obxectos simbólicos coma gargantillas e outras pezas fetiche, posando provocativamente, ofrecéndose a si mesmas parcialmente espidas e coma meros obxectos sexuais a posuír. Sylvia Kristel, Edition YNOX París (2014), ISBN 978-2-36699-012-6 (Edición en branco e negro) & ISBN 978-2-36699-013-3 (Edición en cor) Irina Ionesco (3 September 1930 – 25 July 2022) [1] was a French photographer. She traveled and painted for several years before discovering photography and eventually became known for her erotic photography and most controversially for using her pre-pubescent daughter as a model.