Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971) - Lot 46

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Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971) - Lot 46
Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971) Woman kneeling on the ground (one hand behind her head) Model created in 1930. Proof in bronze with brown and light brown patina. Our proof cast in 1991. Signed "csaky" on the terrace. Bears the founder's stamp "FONDERIE DE LA PLAINE CIRE PERDUE" and numbered "1/8" on the edge of the terrace. Height 24.5 cm; Length: 23 cm; Depth: 14 cm (base) Provenance : - Sale Paris, Hôtel Drouot, PIASA, June 18, 2010, lot n° 46. Related work : - Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971), Femme genou à terre (une main derrière la tête), 1930, bronze, H. 27 cm, terrasse 25 x 15 cm, photo Fonds Marc Vaux, MV0504 006 , Centre Pompidou/MNAM-CCI - Bibliothèque Kandinsky. Bibliography : - Félix MARCILLAC, Csaky, du cubisme historique à la figuration réaliste, catalog raisonné des sculptures, Paris, Éditions de l'Amateur, 2007, model listed under n° 1930-FM.172/d, p. 352. - Quentin ROSE, Du cubisme à l'abstraction dans l'œuvre de Joseph Csaki (1908-1924) : témoignage photographique d'une modernité en sculpture , Mémoire de recherche (2de année de 2e cycle) en histoire de l'art appliquée aux collections soumis sous la direction de Madame Ariane Coulondre, October 2020, annexe 2, one copy reproduced p. 71. After initial training in his native Hungary, where he became familiar with the practice of direct carving, Joseph Csaky arrived in Paris in 1908. He settled at La Ruche in the Montparnasse district, where he rubbed shoulders with sculptors such as Archipenko. His first works bore a Rodinian imprint, but he quickly evolved towards a cubist treatment, in contact with the Section d'Or, of which he was a member and with which he exhibited in 1912. A few years later, this cubist research led him to a sculpture with increasingly simplified and geometric forms, close to abstraction. By 1928, having reached the end of his cubist experimentation, Csaky returned to figuration, as illustrated by his series of nude women sitting on their knees, lying down or sleeping. But he never forgot his cubist years. The simplified volumes of the bodies, powerful and massive, retain "an intellectual, reflective character, and we will always find traces of a true Cubist spirit in them", according to Denys Chevalier. Expert : Cabinet LACROIX-JEANNEST
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