Sentry
Model of a statue. 1933
- Гипс крашеный. 40 x 45 x 32
- СО/ПФ-1
Received in 1934 from the artist, Leningrad
Sherwood’s sculpture Sentry, executed at a time when the official Socialist Realism style was being formed and affirmed, has become somewhat of a metaphor in sculpture for the spirit of revolutionary romanticism. Sculpted using realistic but relatively generalised sculptural forms, and lacking specific portrait features, the figure embodied the collective image of a heroic soldier of the revolution, in accordance with the canons of the new style. Along with Vera Mukhina’s sculptural composition Worker and Collective Farm Woman, Sentry has become one of the most popular sculptural symbols of the Stalin era.