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