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Dame Elisabeth Frink, D.B.E., R.A.
Description
- Dame Elisabeth Frink, D.B.E., R.A.
- riace III
- signed and numbered 3/4
- bronze with painted face
- height: 249cm.; 98in.
Provenance
Exhibited
Washington D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture & Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, unnumbered catalogue (artist's cast);
London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Elisabeth Frink, May – June 2002, unnumbered catalogue.
Literature
Edward Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, Art Books International, London, 1994, no.SC42, illustrated frontispiece, pp.54 and 188 (another cast);
Edward Lucie-Smith and Elisabeth Frink, Frink: A Portrait, Bloomsbury, London, 1994, illustrated p.104;
Stephen Gardiner, Frink, HarperCollins, London, 1998, illustrated, unpaginated.
Condition
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Catalogue Note
'What I've always said about my figures, and I think it's true, is that they're nothing to do with any known myth....Yet they are mythical – they're part of our past. They're nothing to do with what I'm seeing now or looking at. They're to do with our collective past...' (The artist, quoted in Edward Lucie-Smith and Elisabeth Frink, Frink: A Portrait, Bloombsury, London 1994, p.126).
Conceived in 1988 and cast in an edition of 4.