Head

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Head
signed and numbered 'Frink 1/6' (on the base of the neck)
bronze with a dark brown patina
25¼ in. (64.1 cm.) high
Conceived in 1969.

Provenance

Purchased by the present owner in 1991.

Literature

B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 176, no. 184, another cast illustrated.
A. Downing, exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculptures, Graphic Works, Textiles, Salisbury, 1997, pp. 52, 69, no. 36, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Frink: Sculpture & Drawings, London, Beaux Arts, 2002, p. 6 and the front cover, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Frink, London, Beaux Arts, 2011, p. 32, exhibition not numbered, another cast illustrated.
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, p. 116, no. FCR 211, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

Salisbury, Salisbury Library and Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Sculptures, Graphic Works, Textiles, May - June 1997, no. 36, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Salisbury, Cathedral and Close, May - 19 June 1997, and Dorset, County Museum, June - August 1997.
London, Beaux Arts, Frink: Sculpture & Drawings, May - June 2002, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Beaux Arts, Frink, October - November 2011, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

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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Lot Essay

‘When studied, it will be found that the Heads have in each case a decidedly different character, and that it is the detail which proved to be important in accomplishing this. She had made an unusually special point, and for the first time, of examining features, the form and intricacies of, say, the ear and its lobes; being she said ‘fascinated by teeth’, and by giving a glimpse of their rough edges between slightly parted lips, she shows us the extraordinary: a gruesome touch' (S. Gardiner, The Official biography of Elisabeth Frink, London, 1998, p. 158).

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