Tribute I

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Tribute I
signed and numbered 'Frink 5/6' (on the back)
bronze with a dark brown patina
27 in. (68.6 cm.) high
Conceived in 1975.

Provenance

Purchased by the present owner's father circa 1995, and by descent.

Literature

B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, pp. 14-15, 23, 64, 108-109, 185, no. 219, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, pp. 30-31, 130, no. FCR247, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Recent Sculpture, November - December 1976, not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Battersea Park, A Silver Jubilee Sculpture Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, June – September 1977, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
New York, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, Watercolours, Prints, 1979, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
Toronto, Waddington and Shiell Galleries, Elisabeth Frink, 1979, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
Winchester, Great Courtyard, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture in Winchester, July - September 1981, not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, July - November 1983, another cast exhibited.
London, Royal Academy, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, February - March 1985, no. 67, another cast exhibited.
Washington D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, not numbered, another cast exhibited.

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Lot Essay

'[They] are perhaps a comment on where we're heading: as far as I can see, towards a new dark age in human relations. They are about peace and freedom of spirit: people who have been through the horrors and got through to the other side. They are not political prisoners, but maybe they were'

(Dame Elisabeth Frink, quoted in A. Ratuszniak (ed.), op. cit., p. 130)

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