Tove Ólafsson. Seated woman. Sculpture of gilded bronze. (cd)

Automatic translation from Danish.

Tove Ólafsson (1909-1992), cd. Gilded bronze sculpture in the form of a seated woman. Signed monogram T.O. 4/195 and with bronze foundry stamp. On a square base of slate. H. 29 cm. Tove Olafsson was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts 1932-35 under Einar Utzon-Frank. Tove Ólafsson's preferred materials were wood and stone, but she also worked in clay. A strict and simple, naturalistic idiom characterizes sculptures of especially mother and child, young people, groups of children and women, many of which are installed in Danish cities; at Brøndbyhallen in Copenhagen stands the large bronze Hurtigløber, 1982. From 1944 she was a member of the Kammeraterne, and she received the Eckersberg Medal in 1948