PROVENANCE
Gallery Moos Ltd., Toronto
Private Collection, Toronto

LITERATURE
Colin S. MacDonald, A Dictionary of Canadian Artists, Volume 1, 1997, page 689a

Romanian-born Sorel Etrog lived in Israel before coming to Canada in 1959. In Toronto he exhibited at Gallery Moos, where he had four successful shows before 1965. He was enthusiastically reviewed by critic John Bentley Mays, who described his works on paper as “exuberant, bold drawings [that] seem to turn slowly and twist in an anytime, anywhere void...” His sculptures can be characterized similarly - their combination of lyrical, energetic lines and hard-edged geometric shapes gives the works both contrast and harmony. Amalgamating elements of the figure and evoking ideas of youth or age, Etrog’s sculptures are both surreal and familiar. Odalisque, with its organic knotted form, seems as if it might untwist itself and become a creature of some sort. Etrog’s work can be seen in numerous public commissions in Canada, and his Grand Odalisque, which relates somewhat to this smaller-scale work, can be found in two versions in the city of Toronto alone. His work was the subject of a retrospective at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2013. Etrog passed away in February of this year.

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