Lot 303
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)

Dog

Details
Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Dog
signed and numbered 'Frink AC.6' and stamped with the foundry mark 'Morris Singers Founders London' (on the right hind leg)
bronze with a dark brown patina
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high
Conceived in 1992.
Provenance
Purchased from Courcoux and Courcoux Galleries, Stockbridge, circa 1997, and by descent.
Literature
Art Review, London, June 1993, p. 59, as 'Childhood', another cast illustrated.
E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, pp. 20, 191, no. SC73, another cast illustrated.
A. Downing, exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink sculptures, graphic works, textiles, in accordance with Elisabeth Frink: a certain unexpectedness, Salisbury, Salisbury Library and Galleries, 1997, pp. 44, 71, no. 90, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1966-1993, London, Lumley Cazalet, 1997, n.p., no. 15, as 'Dog (Childhood)', another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak, Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, pp. 188-189, no. FCR401, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
Salisbury, Salisbury Library and Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: a certain unexpectedness, May - June 1997, no. 90, another cast exhibited.
London, Lumley Cazalet, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1966-1993, June - July 1997, no. 15, as 'Dog (Childhood)', another cast exhibited.
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 cast of Dog is from the Artist's Cast edition of 6. A further 50 casts were commissioned by The Morris Singer Foundry, Basingstoke, to be sold in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London.

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