Vente aux enchères en direct 763720th Century British Art
Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Lot 150

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)

Goggled Head II (teeth)

Fermé12 December 2008

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GBP 103,250

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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Goggled Head II (teeth)
stamped with the foundry mark 'Morris/Singer/FOUNDERS/LONDON' (on the back of the neck)
bronze with a dark brown patina and polished goggles
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1969 and cast in an edition of 6.

with Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, where purchased by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste


After her move to France in the late 1960s, Frink began to create several heads with goggles. The sculptures form an evocation of the 'worst nightmares of modern politics and the contemporary police state; they were suggested by newspaper photographs of the sinister Algerian General Oufkir who, in public, invariably wore dark glasses' (see E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink, London, 1994, p. 67).