Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)

Mirage I

Details
Dame Elisabeth Frink, R.A. (1930-1993)
Mirage I
signed and numbered 'Frink 2 2/5' (on the base)
lacquered bronze with a gold patina
36½ in. (92.7 cm.) high
Conceived in 1967.
Provenance
A gift from Benjamin D. Bernstein to the present owner.
Literature
W. Gaunt, 'Miss Frink's Sculpture', The Times, 8 December 1967, another cast.
B. Robertson, exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 1983, n.p., no. 6, as 'Mirage Group', another cast illustrated.
B. Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, Salisbury, 1984, p. 171, no. 161, another cast illustrated.
B. Robertson, exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1950-90, Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women of the Arts, 1990, pp. 41, 64, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
A. Ratuzniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, London, 2013, p. 108, no. FCR186, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Recent Sculpture, 1967, another cast exhibited.
London, Waddington Galleries, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Prints and Drawings from Chaucer, October - November 1972, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Dorchester, County Museum, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, July - September 1982, no. 23, another cast exhibited.
Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Elisabeth Frink: Open Air Retrospective, July - November 1983, no. 6, as 'Mirage Group', another cast exhibited.
London, Royal Academy, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings 1952-1984, February - March 1985, no. 47, another cast exhibited.
Hong Kong, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Hong Kong Festival, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture & Drawings, January - March 1989, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women of the Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawings, 1950-1990, 1990, exhibition not numbered.
London, Beaux Arts, Elisabeth Frink: A Celebration, 1993, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
Bruton, Hauser & Wirth, Elisabeth Frink Transformation, January - May 2017, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.

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