Horse and rider

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Horse and rider
signed and numbered '1/6 Frink' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
19 in. (48.2 cm.) wide
Conceived in 1971.

Provenance

Purchased from Waddington Galleries, London, January 1972, and by descent.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, London, Waddington Galleries, 1972.
B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 178, no. 197, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, p. 122, no. FCR 224, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, October - November 1972.

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

‘A symbol of a man on a horse, a man riding free and a horse free … intended to be completely ageless. He could come from the past or go into the future. I like to feel that work to’s and fro’s from past to present’ (Elisabeth Frink, quoted in B. Connell, ‘Capturing the Human Spirit in Big, Bronze Men’, The Times, 5 September 1977, p. 5).

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