Bror Marklund sculpture outside the library in Västerhaninge. The sculptor had a studio in Tungelsta when my dad was a teenager. He would often sculpt naked female figures. Marklund sometimes used the neighbor's daughter, a real beauty, as a model, and for some reason my dad and his friends typically found themselves near a studio window when that happened. Oh, and I was at school with the model's granddaughter, and she would also easily have qualified as a model. On a side note, this sculpture was vandalized a while back when someone broke off the tusks. It has since been repaired, but whoever fixed it used the wrong material, so when you look at the elephants a little closer you immediately spot that.
4 comments:
Interesting sculpture. It seems strange to see elephants in the land of snow.
Its of all times to use naked women as model but in Scandinavia it is made a real public art with the Vigeland park in Oslo as highpoint. Not only naked people but also naked animals as are so good done here. Pity of the tusks.
What a shame that some fool broke off the tusks.
That is a wonderful sculpture.
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