Small Rolling Over Horse

DAME ELISABETH FRINK (1930-1993)
Small Rolling Over Horse
signed, numbered, dated and stamped with Ken Cook foundry mark ‘Frink '72 5/8’ (on the lower back)
bronze with a dark brown patina
7¹⁄₈ x 9³⁄₄ x 5 in. (18 x 24.7 x 12.7 cm.)
Conceived in 1972

Mrs John Hay Whitney.
Her sale, Sotheby’s New York, 22-25 April 1999, lot 39, as ‘Resting Horse’.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

M. Vaizey, 'Elisabeth Frink', Arts Review, 21 October 1972, p. 647.
B. Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 180, no. 205 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Frink: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, London, Beaux Arts, 1998, n.p., exhibition not numbered (another cast illustrated).
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, p. 125, no. FCR232 (another cast illustrated).

London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink, October - November 1972, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Beaux Arts, Frink: Sculpture, Drawings and Prints, 1998, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

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