Olympic Games/ Winter, 1940/ Norway/ Olympic Truce/... Lot 17

Olympic Games/ Winter, 1940/ Norway/ Olympic Truce/ Symbol. Preparatory project for the 1940 games aluminum plaques. Plaster Dim.: 48 x 32 x 2.3 cm The war put an end to all Olympic plans for Tokyo and Sapporo in 1940, and from then on the B plans abounded: St Moritz, Garmisch, Helsinki, and even, it seems, Norway... They all fell through, and this anonymous work in plaster is all the more touching for that: "Norge, 1940". War and peace seem to coexist here, and what if the omnipresent rings were a call for an Olympic truce? Some even saw in it a form of shield. And they were right, since this was the die for aluminum plaques designed to raise funds for the 1940 Games...