DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
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DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)

Wild Boar

Details
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. (1930-1993)
Wild Boar
signed, numbered and dated 'Frink 75/ 1⁄6' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
40 in. (101.6 cm.) long
Conceived in 1975.
Provenance
with Ian Courcoux, where purchased by the present owner in July 2008.
Literature
B. Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, pp. 107, 184, 185, no. 216, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, London, Royal Academy, 1985, p. 44, no. 66, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, Hong Kong, Exchange Square, 1989, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, Washington D.C., The National Museum of Women In The Arts, 1990, p. 24, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
E. Lucie-Smith and E. Frink, Frink: A Portrait, London, 1994, n.p., another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1965-1993, London, Lumley Cazalet, 1994, n.p., no. 7, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Sculpture at Canterbury: Bronze, Canterbury, Herbert Read Gallery, 1996, n.p., exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: sculptures, graphic works, textiles, in accordance with Elisabeth Frink: a certain unexpectedness, Salisbury, Library and Galleries, 1997, p. 62, no. 41, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, p. 129, no. FCR244, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
Winchester, Arts Council of Great Britain, Great Courtyard, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture in Winchester, July - September 1981, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Dorchester, County Museum, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, July - September 1982, no. 18, another cast exhibited.
West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, July - November 1983, no. 19, another cast exhibited.
London, Royal Academy, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, February - March 1985, no. 66, another cast exhibited.
Keele, University of Keele, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, June - July 1988, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Hong Kong, Exchange Square, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, January - March 1989, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Washington D.C., The National Museum of Women In The Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Lumley Cazalet, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1965-1993, November - December 1994, no. 7, another cast exhibited.
Canterbury, Herbert Read Gallery, Sculpture at Canterbury: Bronze, May 1996, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Salisbury, Library and Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: a certain unexpectedness, May - June 1997, no. 41, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Dorset, County Museum, June - August 1997.
Dorset, Bournemouth University, Elisabeth Frink and the Next Generation, February 2011 - December 2012, catalogue not traced.
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Lot Essay

Frink had moved to the South of France with her second husband, Ted Poole, in 1967, where she lived until the mid 1970s. In the forests and countryside around her, she saw wild boar foraging in family groups. She later explained to Edward Lucie-Smith, `One of the reasons I started sculpting boars was that when I lived in France, in the Cevennes, we were surrounded by woods and we could actually see wild boars, especially at night. On moonlit nights they'd be making their passages down to the Camargue. They're very fascinating, shy creatures. I was attracted more by their emblematic than by their sculptural qualities. Much of my work is based on that - the combination of something past, the Celtic element, something now, and something which might possibly be in the future' (E. Lucie-Smith and E. Frink, Frink a Portrait, London, 1994, p. 123).

The aggressive nature of the lone male boar gives these sculptures a frisson and a strong feeling of vigour, as often the animal is depicted as if encountered suddenly by the viewer. The textured surface of the sculpture, where the artist has built up layers of plaster over a wire armature before casting, giving a rendition of the boar's rough coat. The raised foreleg in the present work indicates a sense of movement and tension, as if this particular beast, with its tusks clearly visible, is preparing to attack an unwanted rival.

Wild boars appear regularly in the artist's work, over several decades and on differing scales. They make up an important part of the artist's body of public work in commissions from Harlow New Town, and the Zoological Society of London.

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