Abstraction (Standing Figure)

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Object Details

Artist
Josef Csaky, French, b. Szeged, Hungary, 1888–1971
Date
(1919)
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
36 x 11 5/8 x 10 1/2 in. (91.4 x 29.4 x 26.6 cm)
Collection Object Type
Sculpture
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Museum purchase with partial funds donated by the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, 1979
Accession Number
79.7

Leonce Rosenberg, Paris
Anthony M. Roland, London (by 1971)
Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 6 December 1978, lot. 269
Museum purchase, with partial funds donated by the Sidney and Frances Lewis Foundation, 1979
TATE GALLERY, London. "Leger and Purist Paris," 18 November 1970-24 January 1971, ill. p. 40.
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PA. “Fernand Leger and the Modern City” 3 October 2013-5 January 2014.

LEBEL, ROBERT. Anthologie des formes inventees (Paris : Edition de la galerie du cercle, 1962), no. 4, ill.
KARSHAN, DONALD. Csaky (Paris: 15 Depot, 1973), p. 34-35, ill. 6,7,8, cat.
MARCILHAC, FELIX. "Josef Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture," Connoisseur 186/747 (May 1974), pp. 10-17, no. 3, ill. p. 13.
MARCILHAC, FELIX. "Josef Csaky 1888-1971," Encyclopedie Connaissance des Arts, no. 309 (November 1977), pp. 141-148, no. 2, ill. p. 142.
UNSIGNED. "La Chronique des Arts," Supplement a la Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 1334 (March 1980), p. 77.
UNSIGNED. "Purchases by the Hirshhorn Museum 1974-1983," Sculpture Newsletter (Mountainville, NY: Storm King Art Center, Fall 1983), ill.
FLETCHER, VALERIE J. Cubist Sculpture (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), permanent exhibition brochure.

Signature
Unsigned
Inscriptions
Not DatedNo Inscriptions

Museum
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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