Lot Essay
Frink's Soldier's Head series of 1965 was concerned with the brutality of war. At the time she was married to Ted Pool whose severe war wounds were a constant reminder.
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Soldier's Head IV
Details
Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Soldier's Head IV
signed and numbered 'Frink 5/6' (on the back)
bronze with a light brown patina
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high
Conceived in 1965.
Soldier's Head IV
signed and numbered 'Frink 5/6' (on the back)
bronze with a light brown patina
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) high
Conceived in 1965.
Literature
B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, pp. 162-3, no. 120, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1990, p. 64.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1990, p. 64.
Exhibited
Washington D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, not numbered.
Special notice
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Frink's Soldier's Head series of 1965 was concerned with the brutality of war. At the time she was married to Ted Pool whose severe war wounds were a constant reminder.