Bird with Young
Sonja Ferlov Mancoba
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Date:
1935
Type:
Animal group
Materials:
Bronze, granite
Measurements:
Pictures
Facts
Inscription:
On bronze plate let into the front bottom of the plinth in engraved lettering: "FUGL MED UNGE 1985/SONJA FERLOV MANCOBA/Gave fra Legatet Albertina" (Bird with Young 1985/Sonja Ferlov Mancoba/ Donation from the Albertina Foundation)
Owner:
Copenhagen Municipality
Donated by:
The Albertina Foundation
Placement
Address:
Kildevældsparken by the lake towards Borgervænget
Litterature
Recommended litterature:
Troels Andersen: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Signum, 2. årg. Nr. 1962, 42. Robert Dahlmann Olsen: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, Vor Tids Kunst 72, København 1971, 5. Troels Andersen: Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, København 1979, 17. Anne Højer Petersen: Skulptur i København – 40 udvalgte værker, København 1996, nr. 33. . Peter Bak Rasmussen & Jens Peter Munk: Skulpturer i København, København 1999, 160-61. Bonnie Mürsch: Noahs Ark. En billedbog med rim og remser om dyr i by og i bur, København 2011, 257.
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Description
The sculpture is an abstraction of the motif which in a stringent, concentrated form portrays the situation in which a chick is being fed by its mother.
The artist made her first appearance in the Artists' Autumn Exhibition in 1935 with this figure.
