{{short description|Czech-born Canadian sculptor (born 1948)}} {{BLP primary sources|date=November 2010}} {{Infobox artist | name = Lea Vivot | image = | caption = | imagesize = | birth_name = Drahomíra Hekelová | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1948}} | birth_place = Šumperk-Horní Temenice, Czechoslovakia (Moravia) | death_date = | death_place = | field = sculptor, graphic artist and printmaker | training = Ontario College of Art, Prague, Milan, Italy and New York City, | movement = | works = }} '''Lea Vivot''' is a Czech-born Canadian sculptor. She has studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario as well as Prague, Czechoslovakia, Milan, Italy and New York City, United States. Although her main focus is sculpture, Vivot is also active in drawing and printmaking. Vivot’s over life-sized bronze sculptures are figurative and often depict families, couples, mothers, children, and other subjects of humanity. Most of her sculptures include benches, which have become her trademark.
==Works by Vivot== * Following the death of New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton, Vivot announced that she would create three different public statues of him, for Toronto, Ottawa, and his hometown of Hudson, Quebec.<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/layton-s-likeness-to-be-cast-in-bronze-1.1055965 "Layton's likeness to be cast in bronze."] CBC News. September 25, 2011.</ref> * Tommy Douglas (Weyburn, Saskatchewan)<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Pieces |url=http://www.leavivot.com/new_pieces.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713194516/http://www.leavivot.com/new_pieces.htm |archive-date=2011-07-13 |website=www.leavivot.com}}</ref> * ''The Secret Bench of Knowledge'' (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa) * ''Endless Bench'' (Located at front of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Endless Bench Sculpture |url=http://www.leavivot.com/endless_bench.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090911060330/http://www.leavivot.com/endless_bench.htm |archive-date=2009-09-11 |website=www.leavivot.com}}</ref> * ''Le banc des amoureux'' (Montreal Botanical Garden, Montreal)<ref>http://picasaweb.google.com/100244606791412207006/JardinBotanique2010#5463534570959926994</ref> * ''Le banc du secret'' (Le 2001 McGill College, Montreal)<ref>http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/JVWRZIi1BbkoUlWVm6QtGA</ref> * Joy Of Life (1983): Montreal 1434 Sherbrooke Ave. West<ref>{{Cite web |title=Joy of Life (2) - Vivot - Toronto Sculpture |url=http://www.dittwald.com/torontosculpture/image.php?Artist=Vivot&Title=Joy%20of%20Life%20(2) |access-date=2026-02-23 |website=www.dittwald.com}}</ref> * ''Lavička neřesti'' ''The Bench of Vice'', K Žižkovu 1851/4, Prague
==Gallery== <gallery> File:Sculpture Lea Vivot LAC BAC.jpg|Lea Vivot's ''The Secret Bench of Knowledge'' (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa) File:Sculpture Lea Vivot Bench of Vice Prague 01.jpg|''The Bench of Vice'' (''Lavička neřesti)'' (Sazka building, Prague) File:Lebancdesamoureux.JPG|Lea Vivot's ''Le banc des amoureux'' (Montreal Botanical Garden, Montreal) </gallery>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Lea Vivot}} * [http://www.macleans.ca/tag/lea-vivot/ Maclean's article about Lea Vivot's proposed Jack layton memorial statues] * [http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/25/three-jack-layton-statues-canadian-sculptor_n_979852.html Huffington Post Three Jack Layton Statues Planned By Canadian Sculptor] * [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/layton-s-likeness-to-be-cast-in-bronze-1.1055965 CBC: Layton's likeness to be cast in bronze] * [https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment Kiefer Sutherland unveils Tommy Douglas statue] * [http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/telexport/programmes?kategorie=15&porad=329 CZECH TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY] * [http://www.leavivot.com/about_the_artist.htm leavivot.com/about_the_artist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719073813/http://www.leavivot.com/about_the_artist.htm |date=2011-07-19 }} * [http://www.leavivot.com/ Lea Vivot]
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