Villé VallgrenFinnish, 1855–1940May one see it?
Stockholm, Sweden
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
The Finnish artist Ville Vallgren was in France for nearly 20 years and was nicknamed “Ville de Paris”. He specialised in sculptures that combine pure shapes with strong emotional expression. Finnish journalists compared him to Rodin.
Nationalmuseum