Public artwork included the Yellow Submarine, a statue of John Lennon, a Blue Peter ship, the Wish You Were Here tourist sculpture, a kissing gate and a red dragon slide and a large red bull sculpture.

Then they stormed out the bronze doors of 11 Broadway, charged up to the bull sculpture in Bowling Green and rubbed its nose for luck.

During that time, he made an entire series of bull sculptures in various dimensions (Bull, 1950, 1956).

In 2004, Di Modica announced that the bull sculpture was for sale, on condition the buyer does not move it from its present location.

The sculptor who created a 7,000-pound charging bull sculpture that has become a favorite tourist photo stop at the foot of Broadway has filed suit in federal court in Manhattan against Wal-Mart, complaining that it is selling lithographs of his work without his permission.

He has many sculptures in different locations of Istanbul, including a bull sculpture at the center of Istanbul's Kadikoy district.

Easy explanations of his work, which extends from the recent shoe compositions to bull sculptures made from old bicycle parts and, most famous, African-inspired forms alchemized from discarded irons, can cause it to sound whimsical.

The bull sculpture had been crushed by the falling masonry of the damaged temple.