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

Lot 193
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Lot 193 | DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
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£ 60 000 – 100 000
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)

Goggled Head II (teeth)

signed and numbered 'Frink 1/6' (on the back)

bronze with a dark brown and polished patina

25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm.) high

Conceived in 1969.





Provenance

Acquired by the present owners by the late 1970s.



Literature

P. Overy, 'Modern British Sculptors', The Financial Times, 9 December 1969, p. 3.

E. Mullins (intro.), The Art of Elisabeth Frink, London, 1972, n.p., no. 110, another cast illustrated, as 'Head with Goggles (teeth)'.

Exhibition catalogue, Sculpture, London, Waddington Galleries, 1982, p. 10, no. 15, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 1983, n.p., no. 9, another cast illustrated, as 'Goggle Head'.

B. Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 175, no. 181, another cast illustrated.

S. Kent, exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, London, Royal Academy, 1985, p. 41, no. 59, another cast illustrated.

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

Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink, London, Beaux Arts, 1997, n.p., exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

S. Gardiner, Frink: The Official Autobiography of Elisabeth Frink, London, 1998, between pp. 202 and 203.

Exhibition catalogue, Frink, London, Beaux Arts, 2009, n.p., exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated, as 'Goggled Head II'.

A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, p. 116, no. FCR208, another cast illustrated.

C. Winner, exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2018, p. 126, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.



Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Recent Work, December 1969, ex-catalogue, another cast exhibited.

London, Waddington Galleries, Sculpture, September - October 1982, no. 15, another cast exhibited.

West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, July - November 1983, no. 9, another cast exhibited, as 'Goggle Head'.

London, Royal Academy, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, February - March 1985, no. 59, another cast exhibited.

Newcastle-under-Lyme, University of Keele, Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings by Elisabeth Frink, June - July 1988, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

Hong Kong, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, January - March 1989, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited, as 'Goggle Head'.

London, Beaux Arts, Elisabeth Frink, 1997, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

Salisbury, Cathedral and Close, Elisabeth Frink: Sculptures, Graphic Works, Textiles, May - June 1997, no. 33, another cast exhibited, as 'Goggled Head II'.

London, Beaux Arts, Frink, November - December 2009, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited, as 'Goggled Head II'.

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



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Artist:Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
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