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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Falling Man 67 cm. (26 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1961) image 1
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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A.
(British, 1930-1993)
Falling Man 67 cm. (26 3/8 in.) high

21 June 2023, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £35,840 inc. premium

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

Falling Man
signed and numbered 'Frink/3/6' (on the base)
bronze with a black patina
67 cm. (26 3/8 in.) high
Conceived in 1961

Footnotes

Provenance
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries I, II, III, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Prints and Drawings from Chaucer, 11 October-4 November 1972, unnumbered (another cast)
Washington D.C., The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-1990, 1990, unnumbered (another cast)
Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral and Close, Salisbury Library and Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: A Certain Unexpectedness, May-June 1997 unnumbered (another cast)
London, Beaux Arts, Elisabeth Frink, 7 June-8 July 2006, unnumbered (another cast)
Bournemouth, Bournemouth University, Elisabeth Frink and the Next Generation, 2011-12 (catalogue untraced)
Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 13 October 2018-24 February 2019, unnumbered (another cast)

Literature
Howard Griffin, 'Elisabeth Frink', Studio, October 1961, pp.131-4
Edwin Mullins (intro.), The Art of Elisabeth Frink, Lund Humphries, London, 1972, pl.33 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Brian Connell, 'Capturing the Human Spirit in Big, Bronze Men', The Times, 5 September 1977, p.5
Bryan Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale Books, Salisbury, 1984, p.152, cat.no.72 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Bryan Robertson, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-90, W.M. Brown & Son, Richmond, Virginia, 1990, p.64
Annette Downing, Elisabeth Frink: Sculptures, Graphic Works, Textiles, Salisbury Festival and Wiltshire County Council, Salisbury, 1997
Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2013, p.74, cat.no.FCR89 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Calvin Winner (ed.), Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 2018, p.115 (col.ill., another cast)

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