ID 1388422
Lot 179 | DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
Valeur estimée
£ 30 000 – 50 000
Midas Head
signed and numbered 'Frink 3/10' (on the back of the head)
bronze with a light green patina
13 ¼ in. (33.6 cm.) high
Conceived in 1989.
Provenance
with Beaux Arts, London, where acquired by the previous owner in 2000.
Anonymous sale; Pook & Pook, Downingtown, PA, 14 January 2022, lot 338, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, pp. 58-59, 188, no. SC46, another cast illustrated.
S. Gardiner, Frink: The Official Biography of Elisabeth Frink, London, 1998, pp. 264-267, as ‘Midas Mask’.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-1993, London, 2013, p. 181, no. FCR375, another cast 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, April - July 1990, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Beaux Arts, Elisabeth Frink: A Celebration, September - November 1993, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Beaux Arts, Elisabeth Frink, April - May 2013, pp. 4, 32-33, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
| Artiste: | Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) |
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| Style artistique: | Art moderne |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
| Artiste: | Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) |
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| Style artistique: | Art moderne |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Peintures, Aquarelles, Dessins, Peintures |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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