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§ Dame Elisabeth Frink, CH, DBE, RA (British, 1930-1993) Aesop's Fables, 1968 - The Horse Hunter and the Stag; The Bald Man and his Mistress; The Lion in Love; and The Eagle and the Arrow signed in pencil lower right "Frink" lithograph (4) 27 x 38cm (11 x 15in)
Literature: Elisabeth Frink: Original Prints Catalogue Raisonne Hardcover - published April 1998 by Caroline Wiseman (Nos.22-25) Other Notes: Born in Thurlow, Suffolk, Frink studied at the Guildford School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts) (1946–1949), under Willi Soukop, at the Chelsea School of Art (1949–1953). Part of a post war group of British sculptors, dubbed the Geometry of Fear school - that included Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows, Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi. Frink’s subject matter included men, birds, dogs, horses and religious motifs, but very seldom any female forms. Bird (1952; London, Tate), one of a number of bird sculptures, and her first successful pieces (also Three Heads and the Figurative Tradition) with its alert, menacing stance, characterizes her early work
Under glass and browned around the edges.