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‡Dame Elisabeth Frink CH, DBE, RA (1930-1993) Soldier Signed and numbered Frink/5/6 Bronze, 1963 35.5 x 26 x 31cm Provenance: Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, 1972, where purchased by the previous private collector; From whom purchased by the present owner, June 2006 Literature: Edwin Mullins, The Art of Elisabeth Frink (Lund Humphries, London, 1972), no.53, (another cast illustrated); Bryan Robertson, Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné (Harpvale, Salisbury, 1984), no.100, p.158, (another cast illustrated); Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-84, exh. cat (Royal Academy, London, 1985) (another cast); Isabel Johnstone and Joanna Drew, Introducing with Pleasure, exh. cat. (Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex, 1987), p.34 (another cast); Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture and Drawings 1950-90, exh cat. (The National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington DC, 1990) (another cast); Annette Ratusniak, Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93 (Lund Humphries, 2013), p.87, no. FCR124 (another cast illustrated) Exhibited: London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Prints and Drawings from Chaucer, 1972; Cambridge, Kettle's Yard, Man and Beast: Sculpture, Drawings, Prints, Illustrated Books by Elisabeth Frink, 20th July - 11th August 1973, no.11 (another cast); London, Royal Academy of Arts, Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, 8 February-24 March 1985, no.24 (another cast); Sussex, Gardner Arts Centre and touring, Introducing with Pleasure: Star Choices from the Arts Council Collections, 1987 (another cast); Hong Kong, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture & Drawings, 1989 (another cast); Washington, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture & Drawings 1950-1990, 1990 (another cast) 'Among the heads appears not that of a warrior but that of a soldier, anguished and scarred - the ambiguity of war and our concept of heroism begins to become more evident in her sculpture' Read more »