14 Nov 2012
14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street
20th Century British and Irish Art
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20th Century British and Irish Art
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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993)
Dead Rabbit
bronze with a brown patina on a steel base
101.4 cm. (39 3/4 in.) high (including base)
unique, plaster conceived in 1955, bronze cast 9th April 1956 at the Galizia & Sons Foundry, London
bronze with a brown patina on a steel base
101.4 cm. (39 3/4 in.) high (including base)
unique, plaster conceived in 1955, bronze cast 9th April 1956 at the Galizia & Sons Foundry, London
Estimate:
£40,000 - 60,000
€47,000 - 70,000
US$ 60,000 - 91,000
€47,000 - 70,000
US$ 60,000 - 91,000
Footnotes
- PROVENANCE:
Hon. Robert Erskine
Sale; Sotheby's, London, 27th June 1979, lot 151 (as Leveret), where acquired by the present owner
EXHIBITED:
London, St. George's Gallery, Elisabeth Frink, May-June 1955, cat.no.3 (plaster cast exhibited)
LITERATURE:
Jill Wilder, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale, London, 1984, cat.no.19, p.141 (listed as whereabouts unknown)
Category: Fine Art / Modern British and Irish Art
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