PPS·I.01Holocaust Museum of Greece
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Thessaloniki, Greece
Man of Two Wars II
Holocaust Museum of Greece
Historical referenceGreece in the 1940s · Precedent: Rodin's Pierre de Wissant, The Burghers of Calais
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.
StatusCommitted to the Holocaust Museum of Greece; held pending the museum’s completion
ReferencePPS·I.01
CollectionHolocaust Museum of Greece
SectorMuseum
Year2024
Height91 cm
Max. width55 cm
MaterialIron coating over a hand-finished body of recycled PETG
Value$125,000