Lot 116
Lot 116
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARY CARSWELL
DAME ELISABETH FRINK (1930-1993)

Green Man

Price Realised GBP 81,250
Estimate
GBP 50,000 - GBP 80,000
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
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DAME ELISABETH FRINK (1930-1993)

Green Man

Price Realised GBP 81,250
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
Price Realised GBP 81,250
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
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DAME ELISABETH FRINK (1930-1993)
Green Man
signed and numbered 'Frink/2/6' (at the back of the neck)
bronze with a green patina
2278 x 1812 x 1558 in. (58 x 47 x 39 cm.)
Conceived in 1991
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner on 6 January 1991.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink A Celebration, London, Beaux Arts, 1993, n.p., exhibition not numbered (another cast illustrated).
E. Lucie-Smith, Frink A Portrait, London, 1994, p. 66 (another cast illustrated).
E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994, pp. 71, 191, no. SC65 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1965-1993, London, Lumley Cazalet, 1994, n.p., no. 22 (another cast illustrated).
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink sculptures, graphic works, textiles, in accordance with Elisabeth Frink: a certain unexpectedness, Salisbury, Library and Galleries, 1997, pp. 45, 71, no. 87 (another cast illustrated).
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, pp. 10, 188, no. FCR395 (another cast illustrated and on the front cover).
C. Winner (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2018, pp. 144-145, exhibition not numbered (another cast illustrated).
Exhibited
London, Beaux Arts, Elisabeth Frink A Celebration, 1993, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
London, Lumley Cazalet, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1965-1993, November - December 1994, no. 22, another cast exhibited.
Salisbury, Library and Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: a certain unexpectedness, May - June 1997, no. 87, another cast exhibited: this exhibition travelled to Dorset, Country Museum, June - August 1997.
Bournemouth, Bournemouth University, Elisabeth Frink ... this Fleeting World, February - July 2011, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, October 2018 - February 2019, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
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