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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Warrior (Small Warrior) 36.4 cm. (14 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1956, in an edition of 10) image 1
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Warrior (Small Warrior) 36.4 cm. (14 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1956, in an edition of 10) image 2
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Warrior (Small Warrior) 36.4 cm. (14 3/8 in.) high (Conceived in 1956, in an edition of 10) image 3
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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A.
(British, 1930-1993)
Warrior (Small Warrior) 36.4 cm. (14 3/8 in.) high

22 September – 1 October 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, New Bond Street

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

Warrior (Small Warrior)
signed 'Frink' (on the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina
36.4 cm. (14 3/8 in.) high
Conceived in 1956, in an edition of 10

Footnotes

Provenance
With The Waddington Galleries, London, 23 December 1959, where acquired by
Private Collection, U.K., thence by family descent to the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, 4-25 June 1959, cat.no.20 (another cast)
Los Angeles, Felix Landau Gallery, Elisabeth Frink: Recent Sculpture, 6-25 November 1961, cat.no.3 (as Small Warrior, another cast)
London, Waddington Galleries I, II and III, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, Prints and Drawings, 11 October-4 November 1972, unnumbered (as Small Warrior, another cast)
London, Beaux Arts, Frink, 8 October-15 November 1997, unnumbered (another cast)

Literature
Bryan Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale Books, Salisbury, 1984, p.143, cat.no.25 (ill., another cast)
Burlington Magazine, December 1972
Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries in association with the Frink Estate and Beaux Arts, London, 2013, p.52, cat.no.FCR32 (ill., another cast)

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