ID 1076482
Lot 12 | DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
Valeur estimée
£ 30 000 – 50 000
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.
| Artiste: | Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) |
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| Style artistique: | Art contemporain |
| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre, Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
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| Artiste: | Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) |
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| Style artistique: | Art contemporain |
| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre, Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
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