Frink bronze sculpture fetches £566,500 at auction
A large bronze sculpture of a Equus caballus in addition to passenger past times Dame Elisabeth Frink fetched £566,500 at an auction this calendar week of modern in addition to post-war British fine art at Sotheby’s inwards London.
The last carried a pre-auction guess of £600,000 to £800,000
Frink, who died inwards 1993 at the historic catamenia of 63, conceived the last inwards 1974 in addition to shape the bronze inwards 1975. It is the instant from an edition of three, addition an artist’s cast.
The last stands 2.44 metres (96 inches) tall.
It was offered from the collection of Milton Ginsburg, who has held it since 1979.
British-born Frink achieved corking popularity through her monumental figurative sculptures in addition to obtained of import world commissions inwards both United Kingdom of Great Britain in addition to Northern Ireland in addition to the United States.
One of the casts of the Horse in addition to Rider stands on world display inwards Dover Street, Mayfair, London, but off London’s Piccadily.
Frink was fascinated past times the concept of Equus caballus in addition to rider.
She had ridden every bit a tiddler inwards Suffolk, but amongst her deed to the S of French Republic inwards 1967 for a time, discovered the horses of the Camargue, which brought a novel strand of agreement to her interpretation of the subject.
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