Winged Figure

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Winged Figure
signed, numbered and stamped with the founder's mark 'Frink/4/4 Art Bronze Foundry London' (on the base)
bronze with a dark green/brown patina
38 in. (96.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1960.

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 22 May 1996, lot 63.

Literature

B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Salisbury, 1984, p. 151, no. 64, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Frink had a long preoccupation with the themes of birdmen and winged figures, in discussion with Edward Lucie-Smith she comments, 'People find it tempting to say that my birdmen stemmed from the Icarus legend, but that's not really true either. They came much more from reading about an extraordinary Frenchman called Valentin, who used to jump out of aeroplanes wearing his own pair of wings' (E. Lucie-Smith and E. Frink, Frink a Portrait, Salisbury, 1994, p. 106).

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