Joseph Csaky : Catalogue Raisonné Des Sculptures

In 1970, Félix Marcilhac met Joseph Csaky, born in Hungary in 1888, living in Paris from 1908 and French-naturalized in 1922. His sculptures show the extraordinary creativity of the artist and his incredible personal career. During the 20th century, he participated to all the avant-garde movements, sometimes initiating them, leading them most of the time, before finding his real plenitude. Marcilhac promised Czaky to write a study on his work, this catalogue raisonné being the result of it.
By turns close to Abstraction or Figurative, Czaky tackled the most diverse subjects: busts, teenagers' bodies, abstract figures, still-life in relief, treated in different material (marble, terracotta, metals) to which he associates most of the time polychromy. Supporter of historical Cubism, Czaky was from the beginning one of those who decided to apply its rules to sculpture. If this Cubist thought guided him during his whole life, he didn't do of it a restrictive system to evolve towards a more figurative representation.