Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924-1987) Disegno a penna su carta 1974

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15 X 11 CM
L`opera è originale
OTTIME CONDIZIONI

BIOGRAPHY

Sylvia Lefkowitz attended primary and secondary school in her native city of Montreal. She studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts in Montreal, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Columbia University of New York and the Académie Julien in Paris. In 1955 a Canada Council Fellowship allowed her to work and study in Mexico. Further studies continued in Spain and Italy.

In 1956 Sylvia painted the Louis Riel murals which were acquired by the Department of Northern Affairs in 1958 and are now on permanent exhibition at the National Historic Park, Fort Battleford, Saskatchewan. She also produced a series of five mural panels, “The Acadians, ” in 1956, depicting their arrival, colonization, expulsion and return. In 1987 the murals were acquired by Sainte-Anne University in Pointe de l’Église, Nova Scotia.

She settled in Florence in 1960, learning lost-wax casting for her sculptures. She entered her work in an exhibition at the Palagio di Parte Guelfa in Florence in 1962 and received the Porcellino Award for the best resident foreign artist. She subsequently studied in Rome and Greece, finally settling in Milan in 1963. In 1964 she completed an eighty-figure sculpture in bronze illustrating Danté’s Divine Comedy for the 700th anniversary of his birth. The sculpture was eventually purchased by the Government of Canada. A retrospective of her work was held in 1975 at the Cultural Centre of Turin under the sponsorship of Fiat.

During her extended stay in Italy she received several commissions from both the public and private sectors for sculptures in bronze and for her paintings. The National Film Board of Canada profiled her life and work in Canada, Italy and Greece in a documentary called “In Search of Medea.” In 1971, Sylvia Lefkovitz received the price Premio Nazionalle di Pittura « Il Morazzone » of l’Associazone « Pro Morazzone » at the Palazzo communale in Morazzone. In 1972 and 1973 she was awarded the Galleria d’Arte de Palazzo Doria, Genoa and the Premio Nazionalle della Grafica, S. Michele d’Oro.

Although living in Italy, Sylvia stayed in touch with her Canadian roots and in 1967 she was awarded a commission for the creation of an ensemble of ninety separate figures in bronze commemorating the 100th anniversary of Confederation. The sculptures travelled throughout Canada and in the same year she sculpted “The Chorus, ” five life-size figures in bronze which were placed at the entrance of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Westmount Square complex in Montreal.

In 1977 the artist was commissioned to produce a dry-point medium interpretation of the Song of Songs in a limited edition book format. She was also commissioned in the same year to produce lithographs that were printed at the Poligrafico e zecca dello Stato.

Sylvia returned to Montreal in 1981 after an absence of twenty years. She renewed her ties with Galerie l’Art Français (today Galerie Valentin), the gallery that first exhibited her work in the 1950s. The artist died in 1987. She was 63 years old.

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