Editing Per Hasselberg (section)

=== Grodan (Frog, Paris 1889) ===
''Grodan'' (French ''La Grenouille'', English ''The Frog'') was made in plaster cast for the [[Exposition Universelle (1889)]] in Paris and exhibited there. There is a frog between the knees of a girl. Hasselberg reported that the concept of this piece had spontaneously come up when a model in his studio during a break sat on the floor in this position to rest.<ref>{{cite book | last=Torell | first=Ulf | title=Per Hasselberg: den nakna sensualismens skulptör | publisher=Ronneby hembygdsförening | publication-place=Ronneby | year=2007 | isbn=978-91-975092-3-7 | oclc=192057192 | language=sv | page=174}}</ref>

The French word ''grenouille'' does not only mean ''frog'' but in slang also for ''street girl''. It is unknown if Hasselberg was aware of this second meaning, but it was commented that by this statue, he possibly wanted to express his time's view of a tension between the noble and the less noble sides of youth.<ref>Lennart Waern: ''Natursymboliken hos Per Hasselberg'', Tidskrift för konstventenskap 29, Uppsala 1952, p. 71-91, there p. 85-86.</ref>

Several copies in bronze are in public parks in Sweden and marble copies in museums. The most recent bronze copy from 2009 in [[Ulricehamn]] replaced a stolen copy from the 1940s.<ref>[https://www.ulricehamn.se/uppleva/offentlig-konst/skulpturer/ Skulpturer, website of the city of Ulricehamn] (accessed 2019-12-17).</ref> 230 pieces in [[parian ware]] (marble imitation) with a height of 38&nbsp;cm and 241 pieces in 26&nbsp;cm were produced in 1906-1926 by [[Gustavsberg porcelain]].

[[File:Per Hasselberg Näckrosen Rottneros Park.jpg|thumb|''Näckrosen'' (Water Lily), Stockholm 1892; here a copy from 1953 in marble by [[Giovanni Ardini]] (Italy) placed in Rottneros Park near [[Sunne, Sweden|Sunne]] in [[Värmland]].]]