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Elisabeth Frink Tribute II incised with the artist's signature and numbered '1/6 Frink' on the base bronze 86.4 x 72.4 x 48.3 cm (34 x 28 1/2 x 19 in.) Executed in 1975. This work is number 1 from an edition of 6.
Provenance Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner Exhibited London, Waddington and Tooth Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, Drawings, November - December 1976 (another cast exhibited) London, Battersea Park, A Silver Jubilee Sculpture Exhibition of Contemporary British Art, June–September 1977 (another cast exhibited) New York, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, Watercolours, Prints, 1979, (another cast exhibited) Toronto, Waddington and Shiell Galleries, Elisabeth Frink, 1979 (another cast exhibited) Winchester, Great Courtyard, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture in Winchester, 1981, (another cast exhibited) Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, July - November 1983, no. 12, exh. cat. (another cast exhibited & illustrated) King's Lynn, St Margaret's Church, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture, 1984 (another cast exhibited) London, Royal Academy of Arts, Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, February - March 1985, no. 68, exh. cat., p. 16-17, no 68 (another cast exhibited & illustrated) Washington, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, 1950-1990, 1990, exh. cat., pp. 9, 59, 65 (another cast exhibited & illustrated) Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral and Close, Elisabeth Frink: A Certain Unexpectedness, May - June 1997, exh cat., p. 70, no. 44 (another cast exhibited & illustrated) Literature M. Vaizey, The Sunday Times, 19 December 1976 (another cast illustrated) J. Spurling, 'On The Move', New Statesman, 10 December 1976, pp. 848-850 (another cast illustrated) A. Hills, Arts Review, 10 December 1976, p. 698 (another cast illustrated) T. Mullaly, 'Bronze Heads Dominate Frink Show', The Daily Telegraph, 8 December 1976, p. 13 (another cast illustrated) R. Berthoud, 'Elisabeth Frink: A Comment on the Future', The Times, 3 December 1976 (another cast illustrated) B. Connell, 'Capturing the Human Spirit in Big, Bronze Men', The Times, 5 September 1977, p. 5 (another cast illustrated) H. Kramer, 'Art: A Sculptor in Grand Tradition', The New York Times, 2 February 1979, p. 21 (another cast illustrated) 'Elisabeth Frink', Art International vol. 23/2, May 1979 (another cast illustrated) C. Nicholas-White, 'Three Sculptors: Judd, Vollmer & Frink', Art World, February - March 1979 (another cast illustrated) A. Freedman, 'Horses, Men and Sculpture in the Grand Tradition', Globe and Mail, Toronto, 8 September 1979, p. 35 (another cast illustrated) I. McManus, 'Elisabeth Frink: An Open Air Retrospective', Arts Review, 2 September 1983, pp. 10-11 (another cast illustrated) B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 108, 185, no. 220 (another cast illustrated) E. Lucie-Smith & E. Frink, Frink, A Portrait, London, 1994, p. 46 (another cast illustrated) E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture since 1984 & Drawings, London, 1994, p. 135 (another cast illustrated) S. Gardiner, Frink: The Official Biography of Elisabeth Frink, London, 1998, pp. 187, 205, 207, 212, 216, 223, 251, 254 (another cast illustrated) A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, p. 130, no. FCR 248 (another cast illustrated) Catalogue Essay Elisabeth Frink’s Tribute II is a large-scale bronze head which combines the essentially brutish features of many of her antiheroic male figures with an intense pathos and tenderness, captured through its closed eyes. Tribute II was originally conceived in 1975 as one of a pair of related sculptures, which were soon joined by another couple. The four Tribute heads were to become some of Frink’s most successful and recognised sculptures. Despite being created in an edition of six, they were widely exhibited and published. At the same time, several have entered museum collections. Indeed, examples of Tribute II are held by Auckland Art Gallery and also the Dorset County Museum, near the home Frink made for hers