Joseph Csaky (1888-1971) - Lot 212

Joseph Csaky (1888-1971) The Family Pencil drawing Signed "Csaky" and dated "60". H. 50.5 x W. 32.5 cm, in a green cloth frame H. 63 x W. 43.8 cm 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 experience, Csaky returned to figuration.