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

    Margaret Lipworth Fine Art, Boca Raton
    Acquired at the above by the present owner in August 1985

  • Exhibited

    London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Recent Sculpture, 30 November-22 December 1976 (another example exhibited and illustrated, front cover)
    London, Battersea Park, A Silver Jubilee Sculpture Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, 2 June-4 September 1977 (another example exhibited)
    West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, 21 July-14 November 1983, n.p. (another example exhibited and installation view of another example illustrated)
    King's Lynn, St. Margaret's Church, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, 1984, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    London, Royal Academy of Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-84, 8 February-24 March 1985, no. 70, pp. 17, 25, 52 (another example exhibited and installation view of another example illustrated, pp. 17, 25)
    Washington D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 6 April-4 July 1990, pp. 8-9, 65 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 8, installation view of another example illustrated, p. 9)
    Salisbury Cathedral Close, Elisabeth Frink: A Certain Unexpectedness, 22 May-19 June 1997, no. CR222, pp. 8, 70 (another example exhibited and studio view of another example illustrated, p. 8)

  • Literature

    A Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, exh. cat., Battersea Park, London, 1977, n.p. (another example illustrated, erroneously dated, 1976)
    Elisabeth Frink, Sarah Kent and Hilton Kramer, 'Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture & Watercolor 1964-1979', Massachusetts Review, vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 1980, p. 94 (another example illustrated, erroneously dated, 1976)
    Jill Wilder, ed., Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, no. 222, pp. 17, 19, 107, 109, 185 (another example illustrated, pp. 18, 108, 185)
    Edward Lucie-Smith and Elisabeth Frink, Elisabeth Frink: a Portrait, London, 1994, p. 46 (installation view of another example illustrated)
    Annette Ratuszniak, ed., Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Farnham, 2013, no. FCR250, pp. 16, 30, 130, 207 (another example mentioned and illustrated, p. 130)

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Tribute IV

incised with the artist's signature and numbered 'Frink 5/6' on the reverse
bronze
68.5 x 51 x 49.5 cm (26 7/8 x 20 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Conceived in 1975, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 ‡♠

Sold for £86,360

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 7 March 2025