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

Lot 226
20.10.2022 13:00UTC +00:00
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£ 56 700
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ID 831387
Lot 226 | DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)

Chinese Horse IV (Rolling)

signed and numbered 'Frink / 4/8' (on the side)

bronze with a dark brown patina

16 1/2 in. (41.9 cm.) long

Conceived in 1990.





Provenance

with Mandarin Oriental Fine Arts, Hong Kong, where purchased by the present owner's father in April 1992, and by descent.



Literature

E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, p. 40, no. SC59, another cast illustrated.

A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, pp. 186-187, no. FCR390, another cast illustrated.



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Post lot text

‘Another source of inspiration were the horses seen in Chinese art. The water buffaloes for Hong Kong were not the first occasion on which Frink turned to China for inspiration. She was interested by the powerful pottery horses often found in T’ang tombs, and had one of these in her own collection. She also looked closely at something much more banal: the Chinese horses in different attitudes which are found, generally in sets of seven, as small porcelain ornaments and depicted on scrolls. Her Chinese Horses are proof of her ability to transform this apparently unpromising source material’ (E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, p. 43).
Artist:Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
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