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The Boxers
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The Boxers depicts two boxers modelled by Uuno Pitkä and Armas Wilkman from the Helsingin Jyry -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 competiti ...
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Paasivuoren puistikko, Siltasaari
00530 Helsinki
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Updated: 1/5/2026