Standing Dog

细节

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Standing Dog
signed and numbered 'Frink 3/8' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
44 in. (111.8 cm.) long
Conceived in 1980.
The sculpture was omitted from Bryan Robertson's 1984 catalogue Elisabeth Frink Sculpture due to an oversight but will be included when this publication is reprinted.

来源

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

注意事项

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拍场告示

Please note this sculpture is numbered 3/5 on the base, not 3/8 as stated in the catalogue.

拍品专文

Dogs appear frequently in the last decade of Frink's career. At Woolland her husband was a keen shot and kept vizslas, Hungarian gun-dogs, closely resembling weimeraners, but golden-red instead of blue-grey. While their colour and sleek contours inspired representation in bronze, Frink insisted that her sculpted dogs were generic. In conversation with Edward Lucie-Smith (Frink a Portrait, London, 1994, p. 50) she commented: 'The reason why I sculpt dogs and horses is nothing to do with whether it's a foxhound or a bulldog or whatever. It's just a dog, and dogs tend to bring certain ideas to my mind. My dogs are currently a bit related to the Hungarian vizslas we have at Woolland, but that's because they're here. The particular attention for me is that dogs are the animals who've been closest to man for thousands of years. I find that interesting'.