Joseph CSAKY, Sculpture-volume en pierre 63. Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971) Head, circa 1920 Sculpture in white stone. Signed. 37 x 15.5 x 16 cm. (Minor accidents and stains). Bibliography: Félix Marcilhac, "Joseph Csaky, du cubisme historique à la figuration réaliste", Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2007, referenced under n°c.1920-FM.23, p. 318. The Hungarian-born artist was - on his return from from the First World War, where he served legion - was taken in hand by the gallery owner and Cubist advocate Léonce Rosenberg. In 1920, Csaky took part in his exhibition exhibition "Les Maîtres du Cubisme", which of major collectors such as the Rothschilds the Noailles and soon Jacques Doucet. open to him. Csaky was one of the first sculptors after Archipenko to adapt the rules of Cubist composition cubist composition into three-dimensional space, enabling to apprehend these works in different ways different ways, simply by shifting the gaze the space. In the 1920s, Csakenko's Csaky's angular cubist approach softened and integrated more and more "figurative" elements into his his works. In 1920, he created a series of "architectural" heads and cubist animals that were in vogue with Art Deco. During this period, Léonce Rosenberg period that the artist "commits cones and spheres spheres to create his figures, women and children and children above all, as a sign of hope". In our work, pure, oversimplified volumes and simplified to the extreme are distributed in their complexity in such a way as to create a balance of forms and harmony of the whole. Composed of interlocking volumes, Tête, 1927 is definitely the evolution of Csaky's art towards abstraction. towards abstraction. Un certificat du Comité Csaky sera facturé pour un montant de 500 euros puis remis à l’acquéreur en sus de l’adjudication