Dame Elisabeth Frink Ra - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 7, 2025 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Margaret Lipworth Fine Art, London​
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in September 1989

  • Exhibited

    London, Fischer Fine Art, Elisabeth Frink: Recent Sculpture and​ Drawings, 5 October–9 November 1989, no. 17 (another example exhibited)​
    Glasgow, Compass Gallery, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, Drawings,​ Etchings, 4-31 August 1990, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)​
    Salisbury Cathedral Close, Elisabeth Frink: A Certain​ Unexpectedness, 10 May-7 June 1997, no. SC47, pp. 36, 71 (another example exhibited and installation view of another example illustrated, p. 36)​

  • Literature

    Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, exh. cat., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., 1990, p. 68 (studio installation view of another example illustrated)
    Edward Lucie-Smith, ed., Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture Since 1984 and​ Drawings, London, 1994, no. SC47, pp. 188-189​ (another example illustrated)​
    Annette Ratuszniak, ed., Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of​ Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, no. FCR 376, p. 181 (another example mentioned and illustrated)​

140

Chinese Horse III (Standing)

incised with the artist's signature and numbered 'Frink 3/8' on left back leg
bronze
47.9 x 49.6 x 18.7 cm (18 7/8 x 19 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
Conceived in 1989, this work is number 3 from an edition of 8.

Estimate
£30,000 - 40,000 ‡♠

Sold for £22,860

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 7 March 2025