Lot Essay
This sculpture was commissioned by the Zoological Society of London.
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Baboon
Details
Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Baboon
signed and numbered 'Frink 8/9' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
11 in. (27.9 cm.) long
Conceived in 1976.
Baboon
signed and numbered 'Frink 8/9' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
11 in. (27.9 cm.) long
Conceived in 1976.
Provenance
with Lumley Cazalet, London, where purchased by the present owner in 1997.
Literature
B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 186, no. 227, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, p. 132, no. FCR256, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, p. 132, no. FCR256, another cast illustrated.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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