Bird

Details

Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Bird
bronze with a dark brown patina
14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) long
Conceived in 1952 and cast in an edition of 3.

Literature

E. Mullins (ed.), The Art of Elisabeth Frink, London, 1972, no. 3, another cast illustrated as Tate Bird.
B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 140, no. 10, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, London, Royal Academy, 1985, p. 10, no. 1, another cast illustrated.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

In 1952, while still a student at Chelsea School of Art, Frink exhibited Bird at Beaux Arts, London, where in an almost unprecedented sign of conviction it was bought by the Tate Gallery.

Frink comments, 'The birds at this time were really expressionist in feeling...emphasis on beak, claws and wings - and they were really vehicles for strong feelings of panic, tension, aggression and predatoriness.' (see B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 31).

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