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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Lot 216PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

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

Falling Man

Fermé17 November 2011

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GBP 91,250

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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Falling Man
signed and numbered 'Frink 4/6' (on the reverse)
bronze with a dark brown patina
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high
Conceived in 1961.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 June 2001, lot 167, where purchased by the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Sarah Kent comments, 'During the war Elisabeth Frink used to watch the crippled planes crash down in the fields near her home and rush out to claim bits of wreckage, while falling has been a recurring nightmare since childhood. Falling Man (1961) plummets vertically down from the sky, one spindly arm outstretched to break his fall. This imaginative sculpture, depicting the moment before the deadly impact, literally turns heroism on its head. He is a victim, one feels, of inadequate preparation and poor equitment rather than of enemy fire' (A Bestiary for our time The Sculpture of Elisabeth Frink, reproduced in B. Robertson, op. cit., p. 58).