The Refugee: To Lose and to Rebuild

Historical Period

Burning of Smyrna (1922)

Population Exchange (1923)

Sculpture Completed        

2022

Sculpture Medium            

Mixed media including bronze and black wax

Sculpture Dimensions      

86 cm height x 65 cm diameter

34.0 inch height x 25.5 inch diameter

Model                                  

Maria Blizioti

Petrides’ relationship       

Grandmother, imagined at age 19 arriving in Pireus, Greece from Smyrna

Sculptural Precedent

The Florentine Pieta (1555) by Michelangelo

Precedent Work Held By

Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence