JOSEPH CSAKY
'FEMME NUE DEBOUT', 1933
Terracotta sculpture of an abstract standing nude on a rectangular base.
Conceived in 1933, this is a period example from an edition of six.
Conceived in 1933, this is a period example from an edition of six.
H 30.5 cm.
H 12 in.
H 12 in.
Signed 'CSAKY' on the back of the base. The underside of the base showing an old customs label, probably from Munich (1933).
Further images
Exhibitions
Probably exibithed at Galerie Casperi, ‘Exposition de la Société des artistes de France’, Munich, 1933.Literature
Photographic Archives of Csaky (AC.58), photographs by Marc Vaux, dated 1933 on the reverse in the artist’s hand.Edith Balas, Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1998, fig. 66, illustrated p. 101.
Donald Karshan, Csáky, Paris, 1973, p. 95, no. 41 (another cast illustrated).
Félix Marcilhac, Joseph Csáky: Du cubisme historique à la figuration réaliste, catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Paris, 2007, p. 358, no. FM-197/a (another cast illustrated).