Lot n° 86
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 6 500EUR
Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971) - Lot 86
Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971)
Young naked sitting girl
Model created around 1932
Posthumous cast iron
Bronze with light brown patina.
Signed CSAKY, bears his monogram AC, the n°1/8 and the Blanchet fondeur's stamp on the back of the base.
H. 65 x L. 46 x W. 40 cm
PROVENANCE : Paris Sale, Me Catherine Charbonneaux, 20 June 1997, lot 88; Collection of Mr and Mrs François Delrieu.
LITERATURE IN RAPPORT :
- Félix Marcilhac, Joseph Csaky du cubisme historique à la figuration réaliste, Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Paris, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, 2007, pp.162-163, model referenced under the n° 1932-FM.192/b.
After a first training in Hungary, his native country, where he became familiar with the practice of direct pruning, Joseph Csáky arrived in Paris in 1908. He settles in La Ruche in the Montparnasse district where he rubs shoulders with sculptors including Archipenko. His first works bear 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 whom he exhibited in 1912.
This cubist research would lead him a few years later towards sculpture with increasingly simplified and geometric forms close to abstraction. In 1928, considering that he had completed his cubist experience, Csáky returned to figuration. However, he did not forget his cubist years. The simplified volumes of the bodies, powerful and massive, retain "an intellectual, thoughtful character, and one will find there, permanently, the traces of a true cubist spirit" according to Denys Chevalier. However, a certain softness stands out from the feminine figures, and this naked seated young girl bears the imprint of this softness and already heralds the Eve of the Adam and Eve group in the 1933 Tuileries salon, considered to be the most accomplished of this period.
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