Man of Two Wars II

The work & its setting

This bust draws inspiration from the lives and suffering of Jewish and non-Jewish Greeks during the 1940s. The larger version, pictured before installation and described below, is committed to the Holocaust Museum of Greece and held pending the museum’s completion. A reduction of the same sculpture is already in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Greece in Athens.

For this piece, Petrides looks to Rodin’s Pierre de Wissant, one of the six figures in The Burghers of Calais: leading citizens who in 1347 offered their lives to spare their town.

Year

2024

Height

91 cm

Max. width

55 cm

Material

Iron coating over a hand-finished body of recycled PETG

Reference PPS·I.01 · Public access varies by institution.