NB we have also aquired a signed version of this work…enquire for details if interested. (1930-1993), Midas Head, conceived in 1989. Having come from a younger generation so heavily smarted by the Second World War. (NB with mount and backing board the overall size is 20 x 16 ins.). The male form was at the core of Elisabeth Frinks sculptural practice. Linked with the group of post-war British sculptors that included Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi, she is perhaps best known for her expressionistic animal figures and popular public sculpture commissions. It will be supplied with a double mount and backing board ready for framing. Elisabeth Frink’s artistic career was launched at the age of twenty-two with her first solo exhibition. an excellent outlet for Lis’s love of graphics…beautiful drawings: the superlatives run out….the drawings and watercolours looked as though they had been straight on to the page, so excellent was the printing’.Įxcellent condition with just slight age toning on the edges, obscured by the mount. Her Times obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as 'the nature of Man the horseness of horses and the divine in human form'. Elisabeth’s biographer wrote of the illustrations and the printing of this book: ‘ They were exquisite…. Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink CH DBE RA (14 November 1930 18 April 1993) was an English sculptor and printmaker. Elisabeth Frink (1930-93) was a leading British sculptor and printmaker whose work is distinguished by her commitment to naturalistic forms and themes. Her Times obituary noted the three essential themes in her. Those that are signed go for double the price plus…and in all other ways they are identical. Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink (14 November 1930 18 April 1993) was an English sculptor and printmaker. Most of these original lithographs were signed, but some were not…this is one that isn’t. Despite this, she was working on a colossal statue, Risen Christ, for Liverpool Cathedral. ![]() ![]() This is from a dissassembled volume of that book. Elisabeth Frink was diagnosed with cancer in her early sixties. This original lithograph (one of four editioned at the Curwen Print Studio with master lithographer Stanley Jones) formed part of the fabulous Curwen edition of Aesop’s Fables.
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