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Nyrkkeilijät / The Boxers
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"The Boxers" depicts two boxers modelled by Uuno Pitkä and Armas Wilkman from the Jyryn-Nyrkkelijät boxing club. Haapasalo's (1880-1965) work succeeds in capturing the charged anticipation of the frozen moment. The viewer is left with a tingling feeling of the forced arrest of dynamic movement and of its anticipated release.
The work was completed in 1930, and it was redeemed in a sculpture com ...
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Updated: 19/3/2024