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Bronze & Steel Sculptures

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"Evolution", 18", Bronze & Stone
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24", Bronze
"Continuation"
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"Continuation", Bronze patin on travertine, life size 6 month old child.  
​Motif: A hand lifting a child out of the mud of daily life.
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"The Beginning", 1977, 10" x 10", bronze on fossilized sandstone.  Motif: first life (bacteria) arriving on Earth from space
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"The Chart", 8' x 6' x 6", Bronze Cast (lost wax process), Patina finish, ~ 1000 lbs
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"Broken World", 4'2" x 30", steel, illuminated agate, 1971
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"The Guardians", 28", 1969, Bronze Patina, Semi Precious Stone, Private Collection
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"Alpha & Omega", 26", Bronze, Motif: Face of the Future (Mixed Races), 1970
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"Without A Mate", 5', Bronze & Semi Precious Stone, Private Collection (Aon Canada Inc.)
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"Voyageur", 55", bronze aggregate, stainless steel & brass
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"Struggle For Survival",12" first version, bronze on wood.
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"Surface", 18", bronze on travertine marble, 1978
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"Unit", 19", bronze & brass on aggregate media base, 1979
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Untitled, 18", bronze on marble
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"Underground Stars", 6', steel & semi-Precious stone

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Untitled, 1970's,  27", bronze & agate stone on wood
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"Happy Time", 21", bronze
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"Migration", 22" x 12", bronze and brass, 1992
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Oraș (City), 16", Bronze
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"The Mates", 7', Textured Steel and Semi-Precious Stone
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"Fragment", 28", Bronze
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"Contemp-Era #6",20",  bronze, 1973
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"Embrace", 32", bronze, 1969
“You can talk to metal and enjoy the feel of bending and molding it to the desired form.” 
                                                                                                                                                                                                      - Josef, 1975
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"Generation Gap",  14", Bronze
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"The Environment", 28", Bronze
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"Celestial Travel", 16", Bronze on marble
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"The Prayer", 38", Bronze & Fibre Glass
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"Forgotten Life", 28", Bronze, Fibre Glass & Semi Precious Stone
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"Sentinal", 18", Bronze Patina
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"Stone Flower", 12", Bronze & Semi- Precious Stone
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“Any metal which is shaped and executed the right way has warmth.  I can take any piece of cold, dark metal and create a graceful form.” 
                                                               - Josef Petriska, 1971
"Rejection", 28", Bronze, wrapped in gold by owner.
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Bronze Wall Plaque, 3'
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"The Courrier", 18", bronze patina, 1973
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"Insight", 7' x 4', Bronze Patina, Purchased by Ontario Provincial Government
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"Greas", 48", Bronze
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"Pride", 76", bronze
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"Vision", 18", Bronze & Semi Precious Stone, 1972, purchased by Head Office T. Eaton of Canada
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"Nurturing", 20", Bronze
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“Metal is pure.  It’s been around forever and it will last forever.  I want my art to be worthy of that metal, to always have something to say.” 
                                                                – Josef Petriska, 1974
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"Furnica", 18", bronze & agate stone
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"Escape", 55", COR-TEN & Bronze
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"Canada in World", 16", bronze on wood.  Gifted to Jean Chretien after signing the Kyoto Protocol in 2002.
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"Confront", 18", Bronze, purchased by Shell Oil Company
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"Family Seal", 48", COR-TEN and Bronze
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"Have We Been Fair?", 32", bronze on black walnut, 1992
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"Goddess of Fertility", 22", Steel & Semi Precious Stone
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"Devotion", 6', Bronze & Fibre Glass
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"Birth in Space", 6'2", Bronze, Gold & Nickel, 1971.  Purchase by International Nickel Company (INCO), Mississauga, Ontario
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"Noi" ("Us"), 12", Bronze Patina.  Sculpture is now the Award for Canadian Romanian in Achievement 
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18", bronze on travertine.  Purchased by Firestone Company
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"Formation", 18", steel & bronze
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Untitled, 14", bronze on marble
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"Orbit", 20" x 33", bronze
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