Elisabeth Frink 1930-1993
Mirage II
signed on base
number 2 from an edition of 5
1967
number 2 from an edition of 5
1967
bronze
92 x 53 x 22 cms (36 x 21 x 9 ins)
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Frink moved to the South of France in 1967 and with brighter light and warmer air, her preoccupation with birds as harbingers of doom shifted to a softer mood. The...
Frink moved to the South of France in 1967 and with brighter light and warmer air, her preoccupation with birds as harbingers of doom shifted to a softer mood. The birds became slender and sleek, inspired by flamingoes viewed through heat mirages.
Provenance
Private collection, 2014 - 2023Exhibitions
London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink, 11 October - 4 November 1972 (another cast)Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, 21 July - 14 November 1983 (another cast)
London, Royal Academy, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, 8th February - 24th March 1985 (another cast)
Hong Kong, The Rotunda, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpure & Drawings, 1989 (another cast)
Washington DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture & Drawings 1950-1990 (another cast)
Publications
Bryan Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale Books, 1984, cat no 162, illustrated page 171Annette Ratuszniak, Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture, 1947 - 1993, Lund Humphries, 2013, cat no 187, illustrated page 108
