Lot 146
  • 146

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

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dame Elisabeth Frink, D.B.E., R.A.
  • Barking Dog
  • signed and numbered 1/6
  • bronze with a dark brown patina
  • height 79cm., 31in.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, 8th Feburary -24th March 1985, no.79 (another cast).

Literature

Bryan Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue RaisonnĂ©, Harpvale, Salisbury, 1984, no.261, p.195, illustrated (another cast);
Edward Lucie-Smith and Elisabeth Frink, Frink: A Portrait, Bloomsbury, London, 1994, illustrated in colour, p.76.

Catalogue Note

Conceived in 1981 and cast in an edition of 6, this work was based on the Hungarian vizslas that the artist kept at her Dorset home.