Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)

Dying King

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Dying King
signed and numbered 'Frink 2/3' (on the figure's back)
bronze with a green patina
78 in. (198.1 cm.) long
Conceived in 1963.

Provenance

The Lord McAlpine of West Green.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 May 1990, lot 623, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

B. Robertson, J. Russell, Lord Snowdon, Private Views, London, 1965, p. 87, another cast illustrated.
E. Mullins (intro.), The Art of Elisabeth Frink, London, 1972, p. 46, another cast illustrated.
B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Salisbury, 1984, pp. 74-75, 158-59, no. 103, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings, London, Royal Academy, 1985, p. 34, no. 27, another cast illustrated.

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Lot Essay

'The Dying King with the Judas, is one of the key pieces in my 1960s work. He's dying on the battlefield. The idea came from seeing a film which showed Richard III being killed in battle, stabbed to death as he puts his arm up to fend his attackers off. And I'd been going round churches two or three days earlier, looking at the figures on medieval tombs, which I found quite wonderful. So it's also a crusader figure on a tomb' (see Elisabeth Frink, Frink A Portrait, London, 1994, p. 119).

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