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Hand on breast sculpture – Amsterdam

Embedded into the sidewalk, between the sidewalk stones of the Ouderkerksplein and the square that surrounds the Old Church in the Red Light District is a fettered bronze/iron sculpture of a hand caressing a breast. This sculpture was left secretly in the wee hours of the night and, over the last 15 years, this same unknown artist has placed numerous bronze and iron statues all over town, anomynously in the night. The identity of the artist has recently been discovered and he is a local doctor who does this public art in his spare time. The City of Amsterdam has since accepted his works as long as the identity of the artist is never revealed. This particular sculpture is a bronze female bust on the pavement in front of the Oude Kerk on Oudekerksplein square. It represents the women of the Red Light District.

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