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

Head

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Head
signed and numbered 'Frink 5/6' (on the back)
bronze with a brown patina
21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1967 and cast in an edition of six

Provenance

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

Literature

B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Salisbury, 1984, no. 165, p. 172 (another cast illustrated).

Lot Essay

Sarah Kent (A Bestiary for our time, op. cit., 1984, p. 55) comments that Frink's sculptures of heads and figures are character types, symbolising the 'less attractive sides of the male archetype - the ambition that is its driving force, its ruthless self-seeking, its greed and cruelty. The birds of prey, winged figures, soldiers, thugs, assasins, bike riders and wild boar that were to form the major part of her repertoire for nearly twenty years functioned as vehicles for a uniquely female investigation of the themes of masculine ambition and aggression'.

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