Ion Irimescu (27 February 1903 – 28 October 2005) was one of Romania's greatest sculptors and sketchers as well as a member of the Romanian Academy.

[4] In 1930, he went to Paris after receiving a scholarship from the Fontaney-Aux-Roses Romanian School and he enrolled in Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where he worked under the guidance of the teacher Joseph Bernard, being especially influenced by the sculptures of Antoine Bourdelle.

In 1932, he received an Honorary Mention of the French Artists' Society for the work "Autoportret", exhibited at the Spring Salon in Paris.

He also exhibited his works at Bern, Helsinki, Budapest, Dresden, Moscow, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, Stockholm, London, Rome, Berlin, Bonn, Istanbul, Ankara, Tel Aviv, Damascus, Cairo, and Alexandria.

[6] In 1975, he donated an impressive number of sculptures and drawings to the Fălticeni Museum, with which it created the "Ion Irimescu" Collection.

Irimescu donated his works (approximately 300 sculptures and 1,000 drawings) and, as a result, it was created the biggest permanent collection of an author from Romania.

Ion Irimescu said that, during one meeting with Nicolae Ceaușescu, he expressed his intention to sculpt a life-size bronze statue of Mihail Sadoveanu, but he did't have enough material to finish his work.