Head of Thalia (Copper with Green Patina)

Brookline, MA

Head of Thalia (Copper with Green Patina)

In the collection of the Malliotis Cultural Center in Brookline, Massachusetts, which hosted the Hellenic Heads exhibition in 2022.

Thalia, muse of comedy and idyllic poetry, is modeled on the sculptor’s mother as a young woman, from photographs taken around 1950. In the Hellenic Heads cycle she stands for Classical Greece.