"Lone Polar Bear"
Signed Jussi Mäntynen and dated 1941. The motif conceived 1940. bronze, green/dark patina. Height 21.5 cm. Length 34 cm.
"Jussi Mäntynen's animal sculptures", exhibition catalogue, The Gösta Serlachius Museum of Fine Arts, Mänttä, Finland, April 28 - October 1, 1995, compare a copy in marble ill. at p. 60 (catalogue no 55, there called "Lone Polar Bear).
"Djurskulpturer av Jussi Mäntynen", Ensio Rislakki (ed.), 1949. Compare a copy in marble ill. at p. 77.