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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Small Soldier's Head 19 cm. (7 1/2 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 1
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Small Soldier's Head 19 cm. (7 1/2 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 2
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Small Soldier's Head 19 cm. (7 1/2 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 3
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Small Soldier's Head 19 cm. (7 1/2 in.) high (Conceived in 1964) image 4
Lot 28AR

Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A.
(British, 1930-1993)
Small Soldier's Head 19 cm. (7 1/2 in.) high

18 June 2025, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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

Small Soldier's Head
signed and numbered 'FRINK/7/7' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
19 cm. (7 1/2 in.) high
Conceived in 1964

Footnotes

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.

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