ID 1308509
Lot 213 | DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
Dog
signed and stamped with foundry mark 'Frink' (on the back right leg), stamped and numbered 'GREAT/ORMOND STREET/CHILDRENS HOSPITAL/1993 CHARITY EDITION/005' (on the underside)
bronze with a dark brown patina
11 ½ in. (29.2 cm.) high
Conceived in 1992 and cast by Morris Singer Foundry, London.
This is cast 5 from an edition of 50, plus 6 artist's casts.
Provenance
A gift from the artist to the present owner, circa 1993.
Literature
Art Review, London, June 1993, p. 59, another cast illustrated, as 'Childhood'.
E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, pp. 20, 191, no. SC73, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, pp. 188-189, no. FCR401, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
Salisbury, Library and Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: A Certain Unexpectedness, May - June 1997, pp. 44, 71, no. 90, another cast illustrated.
London, Lumley Cazalet, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1966-1993, June - July 1997, n.p., no. 15, another cast illustrated, as 'Dog (Childhood)'.
| Artist: | Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Artist: | Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures |
| Address of auction |
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