Made in Britain
Made in Britain
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September 16, 03:49 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DAME ELISABETH FRINK, R.A.
1930-1993
BIRDMAN II
signed and numbered 5/6 on the base
bronze
height: 52cm.; 20½in.
width: 20cm.; 8in.
Conceived in 1958 and cast in 1994, the present work is number 5 from the edition of 6.
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Acquired by the previous owner directly from the Artist's Estate in 1995
Sale, Sotheby's London, 18th November 2014, lot 163, where acquired by Private Collection, U.K.
Bryan Robertson et. al., Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Harpvale Books, London, 1984, cat. no.43, p.146, illustrated (another cast);
Annette Ratuszniak, Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries in association with the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts, London, 2013, cat. no.54, illustrated p.61 (another cast).
London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink, 4th - 25th June 1959, cat. no.15 (another cast);
Washington, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, 1950-1990, 1990 (another cast).