"The Youngest Son"

From Walter Stenström's fairy tale "The Boy and the Troll or the Adventure" illustrated by John Bauer in 1915, Helle Bang has captured the iconic scene with the witch mother and her three sons yearning to marry the beautiful princess. The tale ends happily with the boy managing to save her with the help of a spell that blows the troll away.

Since early childhood, Helle Bang inspired by the beautiful mystery of nature. From the girl's childhood fascination with the Limfjord to the artist's eternal source of inspiration and creation. In nature there is both heaven and earth, energy and harmony.

This is where our contemporary artist finds his calling to create an enchanting homage in bronze – a tribute to art, history, nature and John Bauers magical world. The sculptures are handmade from scratch in clay with inspiration from John Bauer's famous fairy tale world and cast in bronze in a Limited edition of 36. After casting, the works are carefully polished and processed by the artist.

Galleri Melefors together with artist Helle Bang donates 1000 SEK per sold sculpture from Bauer Collection Edition 36 to benefit Lisa Bauer & The Bauer Quartet and their work in Framing John Bauer's works of art to music and song. For all works sold in the edition of 11 different works, the scholarship amounts to a total of 396,000 SEK.

Technique: Bronze
Size: Height 13cm
Edition: 36

John Bauer Edition 36 is a limited collection of 11 sculptures in an edition of 36, where no. 1-6 are offered as a complete collection with all 11 sculptures and no. 7-36 are offered as individual works.