Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (b.1930)

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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (b.1930)

Bird with a Wing

signed and numbered on the base Frink 5/6, bronze with a brown patina
20½in. (52cm.) high

Conceived and cast in 1966
Provenance
Waddington Galleries, London, July 1967, when purchased by the present owner
Literature
B.Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Salisbury, 1984, no.149 (another cast illustrated)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C. , The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, no.23

Lot Essay

Bryan Robertson notes that in 1965, the birds 'began to walk on tall, stilt-like legs which afford them a clearer view. Their mouths have become glinting slits in heads armoured like an insect's. Their large heads and hunched deformity suggest a malicious intelligence - these creatures are not to be trusted'
(B. Robertson, Op. cit., p.56)

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