Jussi Mäntynen
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"Viborgsälgen" (The elk from Viborg)
Signed J Mäntynen and dated 1924. Bronze, green patina. Height 59.5 cm.
Provenance
The Vernon Taylor Estate in Denver, Colorado.
Literature
"Djurskulpturer av Jussi Mäntynen" (ed. Ensio Rislakki), 1949, the motif mentioned and ill. at p. 27.
Maritta Pitkänen, "Skulptör Jussi Mäntynens djurskulpturer", The Gösta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts publication 1995, the motif ill. at p. 47.
More information
The monumental sculpture with "The elk from Viborg" was built in 1928, the statue is 3.6 meters high, located in Torkelsesplanaden in Viborg. A later cast in bronze was erected in 1972 at the Natural History Museum in Helsinki, Finland.