'TÊTE'

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'TÊTE'
BY JOSEPH CSAKY (1888-1971)

Signed Csaky and stamped fonderia Urozzi on the side, numbered on the back 5/8, bronze with light brown patina, cast in 1914, number five in an addition of eight--15 1/2in. (39.4cm.) high

EXHIBITED
Innsbruck, Galerie im Taxispalais, Konstruktive Tendenzen zwischen Weltkriegen, 1971 (another cast)
Budapest, Corvina, Josef Csaky, Emlékek a modern-müvészet nagy évtizedébol (1904-1914), 1972 (another cast)

LITERATURE
J. Selz, Découverte de la Sculpture Moderne, Lausanne, 1963
(another cast illustrated)
A.M. Hammacher, The Evolution of Modern Sculpture, London, 1969
D. Karshan, Csaky, Paris, 1977, pp.19-31 & 83
(another cast illustrtated, p.18)

According to Donald Karshan, Tête of 1914 is Csaky's last surviving work prior to World War I. Another cast is in the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie in Saint-Etienne, France