Horse maquette

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Horse maquette
signed and numbered 'Frink 5/8' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
14¼ in. (36.3 cm.) long
Conceived in 1980.

Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

B. Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 193, no. 255, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak, Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, p. 146, no. FCR289, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Recent Sculpture, Works on Paper, June 1981, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.

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

This work is the maquette for Horse (FCR290) commissioned by the Earl of March for Goodwood Racecourse, Sussex. Cast 2/3 of this work will be offered in the Modern British & Irish Art Evening Sale on 26 June 2017, lot 19.

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