Joseph Csaky (Hungarian, 1888-1971)
‘La Lionne’, designed in 1924, cast 1984

signed 'CSAKY' and numbered '3/8', with foundry mark for Blanchet Fondeur and Atelier Csaky 'AC' mark
patinated bronze

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Dimensions: 53cm high x 64cm wide x 20cm deep (20 4/5 x 25 x 7 4/5 in.)

Edition Galerie Vallois, Paris,
Private Collection, London

Literature:
F. Marcilhac, Catalogue raisonné de Joseph Csaky, Paris, 2007, no. 1924-FM.83/c (illustration of another cast p. 334).
E. Balas, Joseph Csaky: A Pioneer of Modern Sculpture, Philadelphia, 1998, fig. 59, p. 92 (illustration of another cast).

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Csaky’s Lionne works, such as this lot, were produced in the early 1920s, mark a striking shift in his oeuvre from human figure-sculpture toward stylised animal forms. The lioness sculptures thus occupy a fascinating intersection of avant-garde Cubism, animal subject-matter, and architectural decorative intent—bridging functional ornament and fine modernist sculpture.