Dog

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Dog
stamped 'GREAT ORMOND STREET/CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL/1993 CHARITY EDITION 6/6' (on the underside), stamped with the foundry mark (on the back)
bronze with a dark brown patina
11¾ in. (30 cm.) high

Literature

E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, p. 191, no. SC73, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that this work is signed 'Frink' (on the outside of the back left leg)

Lot Essay

Dog or Dog (Childhood) as it is sometimes referred to, was originally conceived in 1992 in an edition of fifty and was sold in aid of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London. The present bronze is one of a charity edition of six, cast the following year.

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