Lot 58
  • 58

Dame Elisabeth Frink, D.B.E., R.A. 1930-1993

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dame Elisabeth Frink, D.B.E., R.A.
  • Warrior Bird
  • signed, dated 57 and numbered 2/4

  • bronze with a greenish-brown patina
  • height 60.5cm., 23 3/4 in.

Provenance

Purchased by the family of the present owner in the 1960s

Exhibited

Cambridge, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Man and Beast: Sculptures, Drawings, Prints and Illustrated Books by Elisabeth Frink, July - August 1973, no.2.  

Literature

Bryan Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale, Salisbury, 1984, no.33, illustrated p.144 (another cast);
Stephen Gardiner, Frink, Harper Collins, London, 1998, p.60 & p.66;
Edwin Mullins (intro.), The Art of Elisabeth Frink, Lund Humphries, London, 1972, illustrated no.13 (another cast).