Kalapoika / Fishboy

Boy holding a large fish was completed in 1953, but the motif had clearly intrigued Hovi for a long time before this; in 1924, he sold a similar sculpture of the same name to the city of Vyborg (now in Russia, taken by the Soviet Union in World War II). Hovi trained as a decorative artist and held his first exhibition in 1915, but considered himself more a labourer than an artist until 1939, when ...