Live Auction 12226Modern British & Irish Art Day Sale
Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Lot 121 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

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

Horse and rider

Closed24 November 2016

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GBP 191,000

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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Horse and rider
signed and numbered '1/6 Frink' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
19 in. (48.2 cm.) wide
Conceived in 1971.

Purchased from Waddington Galleries, London, January 1972, and by descent.

Specialist note

‘A symbol of a man on a horse, a man riding free and a horse free … intended to be completely ageless. He could come from the past or go into the future. I like to feel that work to’s and fro’s from past to present’ (Elisabeth Frink, quoted in B. Connell, ‘Capturing the Human Spirit in Big, Bronze Men’, The Times, 5 September 1977, p. 5).