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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A.

De Beers Trophy

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A.

1930 - 1993

De Beers Trophy


signed Frink and numbered 7/9 (on the base)

bronze

height: 34.5cm.; 13½in.

width: 35.5cm.; 14in.

Conceived and cast in 1974, the present work is number 7 from the edition of 9.

Jill Wilder, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale Books, Salisbury, 984, p. 182, no. 211, illustrated (another cast)

Annette Ratuszniak, Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries, London, 2013, p. 126, no. FCR239, illustrated (another cast)

This work was commissioned by De Beers as a trophy for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.