JOSEPH CSACKY (1888-1971)

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JOSEPH CSACKY (1888-1971)
Abstract composition Watercolour and pencil on paper. Signed lower right. H_28.5 cm L_20.5 cm W_20.5 cm Source: Modern Galerie, Munich In the summer of 1908, he set off for Paris to pursue his career, arriving at the Gare de l'Est with 40 francs in his pocket and settling in Montparnasse, a Falguière town in the Necker district, with some Hungarian friends. In 1909 Csaky moved to La Ruche. Henri Laurens and Fernand Léger had just left, while Alexander Archipenko and Gustave Miklos were to join him in 1911. Csaky first exhibited in 1910 at the Salon de la Société nationale des beaux-arts (Tête de femme, Portrait de Jeanne). In 1911, at the same Salon, he exhibited a portrait of Miss Douell. At the Salon d'automne, a few months later, he will present a Tête d'adolescent, the first self-portrait of a series that he was to develop up to the Tête cubiste of 1914, the stone of which is now in the collections of the Musée national d'art moderne (MNAM) centre Georges-Pompidou. With Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, Constantin Brâncuși and Alexander Archipenko, Csaky participated in the Salon de la Section d'Or (1912). After the scandal caused by the Cubist room at the 1912 Autumn Salon where Csaky had exhibited Group of three women, he was no longer accepted to exhibit again. Csaky had successfully presented Figure habeas corpus at the Salon des indépendants in 1913. In 1914, in this same salon, Csaky exhibited Tête de femme and Tête d'homme in the most aggressive cubist volumes. In 1914 Joseph Csaky joined the French army (regiment of foreign volunteers). His artistic production only resumed in 1919 after he had met Léonce Rosenberg, director of the Galerie de L'Effort moderne. In 1919, when he had already bought the plaster of Figure habillée (1913), Léonce Rosenberg offered Csaky an exclusive contract. Léonce Rosenberg saw in him a great Cubist artist whose work
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