DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993) - photo 1
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DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)

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20.10.2022 13:00UTC +01:00
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ID 831397
Lot 152 | DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)

Small Lying Down Horse

signed and numbered 'Frink/ 10/10' (on the underside)

bronze with a dark brown patina

14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.) long

Conceived in 1986.





Provenance

Purchased at the 1989 exhibition by the present owner's father, and by descent.



Literature

N. Cameron, exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture & Drawings, Hong Kong, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, 1989, n.p., exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.

E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, p. 186, no. SC26, another cast illustrated.

A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, p. 175, no. FCR357, another cast illustrated.



Exhibited

Hong Kong, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, January - March 1989, exhibition not numbered.

Washington D.C., The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1980, 1990, another cast exhibited, ex. cat.



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Post lot text

Discussing the role of the horse in the artist’s work, Sarah Kent comments, ‘For [Frink], horses represent a multiplicity of meanings - masculine and feminine sexuality, wildness, unusual sensitivity and freedom from mental and physical constraint. It was the wild horses of the Camargue that sparked off a series of large and small horse sculptures which she describes as ‘the spirit of horses rather than the beasts themselves’ (see S. Kent, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, 1952-1984, London, 1985, p. 67).
Artist:Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
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