The highly stylised sculpture of a seated female nude with a dove is rendered in simplified, tense contours. The figure, which rests pear-like on the oversized lower section of the body, nevertheless evokes a pillar or totem in its verticality. It was created by the classic late modern artist Pavol Tóth, a member of the Mikuláš Galanda Group, who developed his symbolically conceived female form with its archetypal qualities in the early 1960s. In his review of the 1967 exhibition, Dominik Tatarka described these sculptures as Tóth's Venuses. In the decades that followed, he varied this concept, successfully repeating it many times in intimate and monumental sculptural pieces, working mostly independently, but occasionally in groups (only in Bratislava and they feature in six locations). 

The individual sculptures vary primarily in details and spatial orientation. The dove and slight tilt of the torso and head are differential features of the Petržalka sculpture. 

The work is situated within an inner courtyard in front of Budatínska Primary School in the Lúky III housing estate, as designed by architects Eva Horková, Peter Jančo, and Pavel Mrázek. The design for this area was created in 1981, but the sculpture itself was not approved until 1988. The architects added a low grass-covered podium on which a sandstone-clad plinth supports the statue. This highly successful architectural composition of public space, accentuated by a fine work of art, is one of the foremost in Petržalka. 

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Research status as of  06. 08. 2024.