Question about Hjalmar Söderberg's story

[Karen Kelsey]

When I visited Stockholm last month I was able to find a copy of Hjalmar Söderberg's short stories in translation. In the story Vox Populi, the narrator sits on a park bench on a warm summer day, near a sculpture that Söderberg calls Grandfather - which has a boy sleeping on his knee.  Two ugly old women pass by and get upset about the sculpture, and then their little dog begins barking.  Söderberg writes, As is well known, Grandfather is a highly indecent piece of sculpture... as he continues poking fun at the very moral Stockholm population.
   Where is this sculpture (or where was it) - if it had once stood somewhere in Stockholm?  Is it considered indecent today?
   Thanks!

[Bo Johansson]

It is the statue Farfadern by Per Hasselberg: http://www.explore.stockholm.se/default.asp?id=9768&lang=SE&bhcp=1
 
The indecency is better visible here: http://runeberg.org/svekon19/2/0475.html
 
// Bo Johansson

[Karen Kelsey]

Thanks!  That explains the story more clearly.  I am sure that the readers of that story would have known what the author was talking about at the time it was printed in a newspaper.