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Eric Fischl's bronze, "Tumbling Woman," depicts a naked woman with arms and legs flailing. It went on view about a week ago in the lower concourse at Rockfeller Center and was supposed to remain on display through Monday.
Some passers-by in Rockefeller Center complained that the sculpture was too graphic.
"I don't think it dignifies their deaths," said Paul Labb.
>"It's not art. It is very disrupting when you see it."<

"The sculpture was not meant to hurt anybody," Fischl said in a statement. "It was a sincere expression of deepest sympathy for the vulnerability of the human condition. Both specifically toward the victims of September 11 and toward humanity in general."