DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)

Lot 12
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Lot 12 | DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
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DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)

Midas Head

signed and numbered 'Frink 6⁄10' (at the back of the head)

bronze with a green patina

12 ¼ in. (31.1 cm.) high

Conceived in 1989.





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 July 2008, lot 201, where purchased by the previous owner.

Their sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 2011, lot 152.

Acquired by the current owner from the above.



Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, Washington, D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1990, pp. 63, 66, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.

E. Lucie-Smith and E. Frink, Frink: A Portrait, London, 1994, pp. 72-75, 98, plaster version illustrated.

E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, pp. 58-59, 188, no. SC46, another cast illustrated.

A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-1993, London, 2013, p. 181, no. FCR375, another cast illustrated.

C. Winner (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, Sainsbury, Centre for Visual Arts, 2018, p. 140, exhibition not numbered, plaster version illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Fischer Fine Art, Elisabeth Frink, Recent Sculpture & Drawings, October - November 1989, no. 20, another cast exhibited.

Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins, 2011-2023 (Inv. no. MMoCA124MA).

Sainsbury, Centre for Visual Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, October 2018 - February 2019, exhibition not numbered, plaster version exhibited.
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