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    23 October 1996

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    Lot 80

    Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)

    Horse

    Price realised

    GBP 155,500

    Estimate

    GBP 100,000 - GBP 150,000

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    Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
    Horse
    signed 'Frink' (on the base)
    bronze with a grey brown patina
    90 in. (229 cm.) high; 99 in. (252 cm.) long
    Conceived in 1980 and cast in an edition of three

    Provenance

    Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, where purchased by the present owner.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Salisbury, 1984, no.256, pp. 112-113, 193 (another cast illustrated).
    S. Kent, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1952-84, Royal Academy Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1985, pl.77 (another cast illustrated).
    E. Lucie-Smith & E. Frink, Elisabeth Frink A Portrait, London, 1994, p.67 (the plaster illustrated), pp.79, 99 (another cast illustrated).


    Lot Essay

    This subject was commissioned by the Earl of March for Goodwood Racecourse, Sussex where the first cast is on public display. The artist commented of the commission that Horse was not intended to be an exact likeness of a throughbred, but an idea of a racehorse. (see E. Lucie-Smith, op. cit., p.98).

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    Pre-Lot Text

    THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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