Young Woman with a Fringe
Patinated bronze low-relief, presenting the right profile of a young lady inserts into a black tinted wooden frame. Her long hair let appear an ear, to escape a stiff fringe on her forehead and waiving locks on the nape of the neck. A single continuous line draws the outline of the face, on the back of the nape to the front of the neck. At this level, it’s crossed by a vertical stroke coming with two buttons and an horizontal buckle representing the shirt’s collar. The cheekbones, the nostrils, the mouth outline are treated in relief giving to the model a more important presence.
Signed Csaky and dated 48 on the left bottom.
Circa: 1948.
Dimensions :
Low – relief alone: Height: 14 ¾ in. Width: 11 ¼ in.
With the frame: Height: 21 ¾ in. Width : 16 ¼ in.
Provenance :
Cécile Goldscheider succession, curator in chief of the musée Rodin, Paris.
Remarks:
At the end of the World War 2, Csaky found a new style, characterized by its plastic fluency, less fixed and static as before. His female forms became suppler, more dancing, with an unexplored sensuality, closer to the expression of life.
Bibliographie:
Félix Marcilhac, Joseph Csaky, Les Editions de l’Amateur, september 2007, repr. p. 372 n°281/b.
