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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Standing Group Maquette 32.4 cm. (12 3/4 in.) high (Conceived in 1983) image 1
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Standing Group Maquette 32.4 cm. (12 3/4 in.) high (Conceived in 1983) image 2
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Standing Group Maquette 32.4 cm. (12 3/4 in.) high (Conceived in 1983) image 3
Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Standing Group Maquette 32.4 cm. (12 3/4 in.) high (Conceived in 1983) image 4
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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A.
(British, 1930-1993)
Standing Group Maquette 32.4 cm. (12 3/4 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)

Standing Group Maquette
signed and numbered 'Frink 3/8' (on the base)
bronze with a brown patina
32.4 cm. (12 3/4 in.) high
Conceived in 1983

Footnotes

Provenance
With Christopher Drake Gallery, London, November 1982, where acquired by
Private Collection
Their sale; Duke's, Dorchester, 25 September 2014, where acquired by the present owner
Private Collection, U.K.

Exhibited
London, Mumford Fine Arts, Art: Is Why I Get Up In The Morning, 29 March-15 April 2006 (another cast)
London, Beaux Arts, Frink, 7 June-8 July 2006 (another cast)

Literature
Jill Willder (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p.197, cat.no.277, (ill.b&w., another cast, as Standing Group)
Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries, London, 2013, p.159, cat.no.FCR315 (col.ill., another cast, as Standing Group Maquette)

The present work is a maquette for the monumental Memorial to the Dorset Martyrs and was commissioned by the Dorset County Museum with funding from the Arts Council 'Art for Public Places Scheme'. The memorial can be found on Gallows Hill in Dorchester on the site of the gallows where Catholics were persecuted and hung for their beliefs in the 16th and 17th century, a subject that for Frink, as a convent-educated Catholic living in Dorset, was very close to her heart.

'These figures have a political element, because I am preoccupied with the human rights situation in the world... and this preoccupation feeds itself or finds expression in my mankind sculpture'. (The artist discussing Dorset Martyrs in Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries, London, 2013, p.169).

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