René Iché (Sallèles-d'Aude, 1897 – Paris, 1954) was a French sculptor whose work sits close to Surrealism. He fought in the First World War, where he was wounded and gassed. After the war he studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle and architecture with Auguste Perret, and his work inherits an aesthetic born in Bourdelle's workshop, shared with Alberto Giacometti and Germaine Richier.
In 1927 his pacifist monument at Ouveillan, a modern monumental gateway in southern France, was well received. In 1931, at his first solo exhibition with the dealer Léopold Zborowski, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam acquired sculptures. He took part in the 1948 Venice Biennale with Le Couple and received the Grand Prix de Sculpture in 1953 for Melpomène 36.
Iché sculpted the faces of André Breton, Paul Éluard and Federico García Lorca. In 1937, in his Montparnasse studio, he made a sculpture called Guernica on the very day the bombing was announced on the radio, and chose not to exhibit it. During the Resistance he was linked to the Groupe du Musée de l'Homme, and his work La Déchirée became one of the symbols of the French Resistance. He was selected for the Apollinaire Monument in Paris and a memorial at Auschwitz, projects cut short by his early death.