Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971) Ouranya Workshop plaster... Lot 160

Joseph CSAKY (1888-1971) Ouranya Workshop plaster (small accidents, globe missing). globe). Titled on the front, signed on the side. Height: 52.5 cm History: in Greek mythology, Urania is the muse of muse of astronomy and astrology. Provenance : - Sale of Joseph Csaky's workshop, Claude Boisgirard and Axel de Heeckeren, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, March 10 - June 28 1978, lot no. 80 (plaster sold with rights to print eight eight copies); - sale Patrick Trigano Collection, Christie's, Paris, July 5 2005, no. 80 (the nine muses together). Bibliography: Félix Marcilhac, Joseph Csaky, du cubisme historique à la figuration réaliste - Catalogue raisonné des sculptures, Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2007, model referenced under n° 1963-FM.352/a and reproduced on p. 384 and p. 267 for a a photograph of the nine plaster casts.