Höken och duvan at Stureplan

Torsten Fridh placed the sculpture Höken och duvan in front of Daneliuska huset at Stureplan in Stockholm in 1990. The bronze artwork stands on a high granite pillar. The pillar sits in a granite basin from which four water cascades shoot up.

Fridh was inspired by a newspaper notice describing a hawk's attack on a pigeon. The pigeon defended itself so bravely that the hawk eventually gave up and fled the field. The sculpture captures this moment of confrontation.

It illustrates a specific account of nature where a smaller bird's determination led to the retreat of a larger predator.

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