Bronze with brown patina
Canada, 1967
Sorel Etrog (1933-2014) – Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter and costume designer
Smaller version of the sculpture from the year 1986 of the same name
On the side on the plinth with the signature stamp ‘ETROG’
One of 7 casts
Height: 23 cm
Very good condition
Literature: Cf. Pierre Restany, Sorel Etrog, Munich 2001, p. 91 (large version)
Provenance: Private collection, Italy (present by the artist)
Small-format sculptures by the important North-American sculptor Sorel Etrog are traded for up to €14,00 on the international auction market

Links are a central theme in the oeuvre of Sorel Etrog. In 1963, the artist was inspired during a visit to the Archeological Museum in Florence by organically connected links of Etruscan sculptures to create a series of sculptures called ‘Links’. For him it was the response to the question of how to connect single links of a sculpture – because he felt that in the sculptural canon traces of gluing or soldering ought not to be visible. In the place of links came hooks and screws, uncovering a usually hidden inner world. ‘Survivors are Not Heroes’ is a 5.49 m tall bronze sculpture that the artist created only four years after his visit to Florence and that is now in the possession of the Collection of the University of Toronto. Our work was created as a study for the monumental bronze.

Literature:

Cf. Pierre Restany, Sorel Etrog, Munich 2001, p. 91 (large version)

Condition:

The sculpture is in very good condition with minor oxidation traces. One corner of the plinth is minimally bumped. The total height is 23 cm.

Sorel Etrog (1933-2014)

Sorel Etrog began his artistic education at the studio of Lobel in Romania until he emigrated to Israel in 1950, where he studied at the Avni Art Institute in Tel Aviv from 1953 until 1958. With the help of his first solo exhibition in Tel Aviv in 1958, he received a scholarship for the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York. He emigrated to Canada in 1963. He represented Canada at the Venice Biennale in 1966. He was commissioned to design the Canadian Film Award in 1968 that initially carried the name Etrog and was later renamed in Genie. He did book illustrations for e.g. Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. He became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1995 and Chevalier des arts et lettres in France in 1996. (tm)

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