Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A.

Acquired by the family of the present owners circa 1970s

London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Prints and Drawings from Chaucer, 11th October - 4th November 1972, un-numbered exhibition (another cast);
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984,
8th February - 24th March 1985, cat. no.29 (another cast);
Washington, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, un-numbered exhibition (another cast);
Dorset, Bournemouth University, Elisabeth Frink...this Fleeting World, 2010-11, un-numbered exhibition (another cast).

Edwin Mullins (intro.), The Art of Elisabeth Frink, Lund Humphries, London, 1972, illustrated fig.50 (another cast);
Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries in association with the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts, London, 2013, cat. no.FCR129, illustrated p.16 and 90 (another cast).

The sculpture appears sound. There are some traces of casting residue in places and some surface dirt across the work, including some matter in places. There are some very minor traces of oxidisation in one or two places. Subject to the above, the work appears to be in very good overall condition, and is a very crisp cast. The sculpture is freestanding. Please telephone the department on +44 (0) 207 293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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'Eventually you arrive at a point where in your own terms the sculpture is finished, and the only way you could possibly improve it is to do another one.'

(The Artist, quoted in Edward Lucie-Smith and Elisabeth Frink, Frink: A Portrait, Bloomsbury, London, 1994, p.47)