Description
bronze, 78” (high) × 108″ (wide) × 12″ (deep)
The Chorus was originally commissioned by Mr. I. R. Ransen of Westmount Square and Centre Inc. The artist, Sylvia Lefkovitz, had studied at L’école des beaux-arts in Montreal, Columbia University in New York, and at the Academie Julien in Paris before working and studying in Mexico where she mastered mural technique. In 1960, she arrived in Florence and soon won Florence’s Porcellino Award as Best Resident Foreign Artist, critical acclaim throughout the country quickly followed. Here she discovered the process of lost-wax – casting a bronze sculpture from an artist’s wax prototype. Lefkovitz accumulated many international awards throughout her twenty-year Italian sojourn. The chorus, a monumental bronze, was sculpted in Milan in 1967 and shipped to Montreal in time for the festivities surrounding Expo 67. It quickly became a landmark, as this life-sized, five-figure work graced the entrance of Mies van der Rohe Westmount Square Complex at One Place Ville Marie in Montreal.
