Mother and Child
Etrog, Sorel
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Date
1962-1964Description
Side view of the stylized head and arms; Sorel Etrog, CM (born August 29, 1933) is a Romanian-born Canadian artist, writer, and philosopher best known for his work as a sculptor. Assisted by the painter Marcel Janco, Etrog went on a scholarship to New York [from Israel], where he was inspired by Oceanic and African artefacts he saw in the collections there. This led to a preoccupation with organic abstractions, flowing totemic forms, and metaphors of growth and movement, seen in Sunbird II (1962-1964; Toronto, A.G. Ontario). His work had similarities with that of Jacques Lipchitz, whom he met in 1959. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 6/12/2009)
Type of Work
sculpture (visual work)Subject
abstraction or non-objective, contemporary (1960 to present), mother and child, figural abstraction, Twentieth century, Modernist
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