Goggled Head II (teeth)

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Goggled Head II (teeth)
stamped with the foundry mark 'Morris/Singer/FOUNDERS/LONDON' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with a dark brown patina and polished goggles
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1969 and cast in an edition of 6.

Provenance

with Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, where purchased by the present owner.

Literature

B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 175, no. 181, another cast illustrated.

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Further details

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Lot Essay

After her move to France in the late 1960s, Frink began to create several heads with goggles. The sculptures form an evocation of the 'worst nightmares of modern politics and the contemporary police state; they were suggested by newspaper photographs of the sinister Algerian General Oufkir who, in public, invariably wore dark glasses' (see E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink, London, 1994, p. 67).

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