DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A. | ROLLING OVER HORSE

Sale, Christie's London, 4th June 2004, lot 151, where acquired by the present owner

Bryan Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale Press, Salisbury, 1984, pp.188-189, cat. no.242, illustrated p.189 (another cast);

Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries, London, 2013, cat. no.FCR272, illustrated p.139 (another cast).

'I always try to explain that I haven't done a great many animals - that I'm not in fact an animal sculptor... The animals I make are far more what I feel about them than what they are in real life. I'm imprecise about the muscles and the blood vessels, which is what a lot of academic sculptors care about. I'm much more interested in the spirit of the animal. I get into the inside of the animal, and the outside takes care of itself' (Elisabeth Frink, quoted in Edward Lucie-Smith and Elisabeth Frink, Frink a Portrait, Bloomsbury Publishing Limited, London, 1994, pp.121-3).