Goggle Head I

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A (1930-1993)
Goggle Head I
signed and numbered 'Frink/6/6' (on the reverse)
bronze with a dark brown and polished patina
25½ in. (63.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1969.

Provenance

with Beaux Arts, Bath, where purchased by the present owner, April 1989.

Literature

B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 175, no. 180.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, p. 116, no. FCR207, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

'I think my first fully conscious comment on the world's inhumanity were the Goggle Heads. When I moved to France I got interested in the Algerian War, which was then just only over. It still rumbled away, the horror of it. What really triggered the series were some rather extraordinary photographs of people like General Oufkir [Morocco]. They all hid behind dark glasses, and these became a symbol of evil for me. The title 'Goggle Heads' was rather facetious, a way of dealing with the horror of the imagery. At the same time photographs played an important part in suggesting my images' (E. Frink quoted in A. Ratuszniak (ed.), op. cit.).

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