
Ingram Reid
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Provenance
With Waddington Galleries, London, 28 December 1965, where acquired by
John Bowen and David Cook, thence by descent to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.
Literature
Sarah Kent and Brian Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale, London, 1984, cat.no.111, p.160 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Edward Mullins (int.), The Art of Elisabeth Frink, Lund Humphries, London, 1972, cat.no.52 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Anette Ratuszniak, Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries in association with the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts, London, 2013, cat.no.FCR136, p.92 (col.ill, another cast)
The original owners of the present lot were the writers John Bowen and David Cook. Together they acquired Small Soldier's Head with Bowen's paycheck from his first published writing – a West End play named I Love you Mrs Patterson (1965). The couple wrote extensively over the proceeding decades. Cook published the novel Walter in 1978, which was adapted to screen on Channel 4 in 1982, with Sir Ian McKellen playing the lead role. Together, the pair also authored the TV series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates.