![]() This particular work was created in 1959 in the early years of Frink’s career and is estimated to fetch between £20,000 and £30,000 (lot 15).Ĭontinuing with Frink’s preoccupation with flight is a maquette for her 1962 commission for Manchester Airport. Frink produced a range of hybrid creatures such as this during her lifetime. ![]() Embodying some of these themes is a work in the collection titled Bird, which comprises the head and body of a bird standing upright on human-like legs, with wings stunted and clipped in at the sides, poised to catch its prey with an oversized beak. (Courtesy of Dreweatts)įlight would become a recurring theme as she examined the relationship between man, beast and nature. Bird by Dame Elisabeth Frink is lot 15 and is estimated to sell for between £20,000 and £30,000. It is estimated to fetch between £60,000 and £80,000 (lot 22).ĭuring the second World War Frink lived near an RAF base in Suffolk and became fascinated by the concept of flight and freedom, as she witnessed planes flying overhead, sometimes close to the ground. We feel a sense of affection as the dog focuses outwards, sniffing the air with wide eyes, looking expectantly at his master,” Whitham said.ĭog was cast in 1993, is numbered 002 and stamped Great Ormond Street/Children’s Hospital/charity edition to the underside. “What is particularly striking is the way in which Frink captures the personality and character of the dog. These magnificent working dogs were muscular in build, with smooth coats, which lent themselves well to being captured in sculpture. She looked to explore the unique relationship between dogs and man, which was something she witnessed first-hand through her husband Alex Csaky, who owned Hungarian gun dogs. Frink explored the subject of dogs in the late 1980s and early 1990s. in Hampshire, to be sold in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital. ![]() (Courtesy of Dreweatts)Īlso in the collection is a charming bronze sculpture of a dog, which was commissioned by the Morris Singer Foundry Ltd. Jean Marsden’s admiration for female British artist Elisabeth Frink shines through the collection which includes seven sculptures and four works on paper all by Frink.” Dog by Dame Elisabeth Frink is estimated at between £60,000 and £80,000. “It is wonderful to bring to market such a well-curated and passionately collected collection of works. (Courtesy of Dreweatts)Ĭommenting on the collection, Dreweatts Picture Specialist Francesca Whitham said Jean Marsden also collected works by Henry Moore, Keith Vaughan and John Bellany, all of which are included in Dreweatts’ Modern & Contemporary sale. In this drawing Frink may have meant to symbolise the defeat of the supposedly ‘civilised’ by purely instinctive and natural values….the pencil strokes are notably bold and vigorous the whole sheet even the background area ,is covered with rhythmic hatchings, which helps to knit the centrifugal composition together’’.Two views of Standing Horse, the last work of sculptor Dame Elisabeth Frink. The man, a new version of her runners, flees from the presence of the animal which contemplates him somewhat sardonically. ![]() Frink here brings together two images seen previously in her work, combined to make a narrative. An early instance of this shift in style is Man and Baboon. They become more pictorial, and at the same time bolder, much less concerned with suavity or elegance. This magnificent drawing combines two of the artist’s favourite motifs, The Running Man and a Baboon : similar drawings, also done in 1985, are reproduced in Edward Lucie Smith Elisabeth Frink ,Sculpture and Drawings since 1984 p.148-149 and in Elizabeth Frink, Humans and other Animals, Sainsbury Centre, University of East Anglia 2018, p.138.Įdward Lucie-Smith writes that in ‘’The mid 1980’s Frink’s drawings began to change in a radical way.
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