Paysage – Sylvia Lefkovitz

Sylvia Lefkovitz (1924-1987)– Huile sur toile signée, mesurant 20×28″ 

Sylvia Lefkovitz studied at L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal,
Columbia University in New York, and at the Academie Julien in Paris.
Lefkovitz moved to Florence in 1960, it was there that she discovered the classic
“lost-wax” process in which the artist’s wax prototype is used to cast a bronze sculpture.
It was a perfect medium for her work, and she soon won Florence’s Porcellino Award as Best Resident Foreign Artist.
After a long series of Italian exhibits and retrospectives and two decades of awards and
commissions in both Europe and North America, Lefkovitz returned to Montreal in 1981.
She worked and taught there until her death in 1987. Sylvia Lefkovitz’s life and work in both Italy and
Canada were profiled in the National Film Board of Canada’s documentary
“In Search of Medea: The Art of Sylvia Lefkovitz.”

“Sylvia wasn’t a sculptor who did a few paintings once in a while. She was both a complete sculptor and a complete painter.”
– Jean-Pierre Valentin, Galerie Valentin, Montreal