Little Prince (sculpture)

Little Prince, also known as The Little Prince,[1] is an outdoor 1995 copper and steel sculpture created by artist Ilan Averbuch, located in the Rose Quarter of Portland, Oregon.

The copper and steel sculpture of a crown resting on it side was installed in 1995 at the intersection of Northeast Multnomah Street and North Interstate Avenue, south of the Moda Center in Portland's Rose Quarter.

[3][4] According to the Regional Arts & Culture Council, the agency which administers the sculpture, "It is a piece about imagination, desires and aspirations, conquests and struggles.

suggested, "The crown is resting on its side perhaps waiting as a prize to be claimed or as a symbol of a triumph to come.

"[1] Averbuch was inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novella The Little Prince (1943), particularly its first chapter where the main character talks about his drawing of a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant being mistaken for a hat.

The sculpture in front of the Moda Center , 2015