Rating and value of works, drawings, sculptures by Joseph Czaky

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Rating and value of works by Joseph Czaky

Joseph Czaky is a sculptor of the Hungarian avant-garde. If you own a piece by the artist, it may be worth more than you think. On the art market, these works can fetch very high prices under the auctioneer's hammer. 

His bronzes are particularly prized, and the price at which they sell on the auction market ranges from €150 to €755,000, a fairly substantial range, but one that says a lot about the value that can be attributed to Czaky's works.  

In 2017, a marble sculpture dating from 1923 entitled Unique tête, sold for €755,000 while it was estimated at between €150,000 and €200,000.

Order of value from a simple work to the most prestigious 

Style and technique of artist Joseph Czaky   

Joseph Czaky uses a variety of materials in the creation of his sculptures, including marble, bronze and granite for the stones. He belongs to various currents: cubism, the De Stijl group, purism, abstract art and figurative art. The style of his work evolves throughout his career.   

Joseph Czaky's career  

Joseph Alexandre Czaky, born in Hungary in 1888, was one of the first sculptors of the Cubist movement, part of the Hungarian avant-garde.

He began training in sculpture at the age of 14 at the Budapest School of Decorative Arts. He disliked the training, however, and left at 16 to learn stonemasonry directly on building sites.

Very poor, he left for Paris to pursue his career, staying with Hungarian friends. He then moved to La Ruche. In 1910, he exhibited his first works at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He then exhibited his groupe de femmes at the Salon d'Automne in 1912, alongside Jean Metzinger and Francis Picabia; the work caused a scandal and he was banned from exhibiting again at the institution. However, he met with success the following year at the Salon des Indépendants. He enlisted in the French army in 1914 and stopped his artistic production until the end of the war.

Léonce Rosenberg, director of the Galerie de l'Effort Moderne, offered him an exclusive contract in 1919. His works began to be collected worldwide. After 1928, he decides to depart from Cubism in order to work exclusively on the representation of female bodies.

In 1930, he is a founding member of the Union des Artistes Modernes, and presents some of his works at the Pavillon de Marsan during their first exhibition. At the end of his career, he exhibited two plaster casts for the exhibition by the Musée National d'Art Moderne on Cubism.

He died in 1971, at the Hôpital Bichat, aged 83.

Joseph Czaky's imprint on his period

Joseph Czaky made a lasting mark on his era, positioning himself as a major figure of the Hungarian avant-garde, who experimented with numerous artistic currents during his career. Today, his works are highly valued on the art market and collected worldwide, although many museums own sculptures by the artist.

Knowing the value of a work 

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