Sunday, January 09, 2022

Elephants at play

Elephants at play
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:

Andy said...

Interesting sculpture. It seems strange to see elephants in the land of snow.

s.c said...

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.

RedPat said...

What a shame that some fool broke off the tusks.

William Kendall said...

That is a wonderful sculpture.