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elisabeth frink sculpture catalogue raisonné annette ratuszniak ‘Nearly all people have a private world. I escape into my studio and put my fantasies into solid form, sculptural form. I have an ambition to be a good sculptor. I think one has to be ambitious. I want to be able to give the idea, the crystallization, the satisfactory sculptural form without it being mere forms which look nice. I want it to have an impact on people who look at it without it being dramatic or melodramatic.’ 1 Dame Elisabeth Frink, RA, 1930–1993 This latest Catalogue Raisonné is the result of new research compiled from the Frink Estate collections and archive. The editor has also drawn on the earlier catalogue raisonnés, other publications and sources. Frink Estate collections and archive: Sculptures, plasters, prints, drawings Stock books: details of titles (and changes), completion dates of original plasters, edition numbers, casting dates, founders, commissioners, purchasers, gifts and related notations Photographic archive: photographs, slides, transparencies and digital images; studio, exhibition and site-specific; Frink portraits, friends and family; visual resources Ephemera: catalogues, press cuttings, letters, business files, films and interviews, books, exhibition and personal memorabilia Additional information was obtained from: CR 1984 and SC 1994 – see below New bibliographic searches Galleries that represented and represent Frink Public and private collections Auction house records Other related sources As a result of this research it was necessary to introduce a new date sequential numbering system: FCR (2013) catalogue raisonné numbers will now replace former CR (1984) numbers and SC (1994) numbers. A complete FCR numbers listing with former CR and SC numbers can be found on p.204. Any future sculptures or plasters (with provenance from the Frink Estate Archive) will be added sequentially to the Frink Catalogue Raisonné (FCR) numbering system independent of the original date. Abbreviations used in catalogue entries: CR 1984: Elisabeth Frink, Sculpture: Catalogue Raisonné, with essays by Sarah Kent and Bryan Robertson, Harpvale Press, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1984. SC 1994: Edward Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, Art Books International, London, 1994. Collections are listed in full on p.201. Exhibitions (place, date) are listed in full on pp 198–201 of Solo Exhibitions and Group Exhibitions. Literature (name or title, date) is listed in full on pp 202–203 of the Bibliography. BA: Beaux Arts RA: Royal Academy WG: Waddington Galleries Titles in square brackets [ ] have been titled posthumously. Frink working on War Horse plaster (FCR393), in Woolland studio, 1991 www.lundhumphries.com 40 elisabeth frink catalogue raisonnÉ of sculPture 1947–93 41
FCR47 Blind Beggar and Dog maquette, 1957 bronze, edition of 4 h: 35.6 cm (14 in) exhibitions: Whitechapel art gallery, 1981–2 literature: nairne and serota, 1981–2; cr 1984 FCR48 (opposite) Blind Beggar and Dog, 1957 bronze, unique 182.9 cm (72 in) commissioned by bethnal green borough council, london literature: The Times, 1959; cr 1984 ‘it is the first piece to shed the rhetoric which suffuses the early work. a quality of awkward serenity has entered this piece, a quality which recurs in all her best sculptures from this time onwards, even in pieces that are outwardly violent and full of menace.’ 16 the sculpture was based on a local mythological figure. unveiled: 7 september 1959, roman road, greenways housing estate scheme, bethnal green Metropolitan borough; architects Yorke, rosenberg and Mardell. it was moved in 1963 to its present site in cranbrook neighbourhood and grade ii listed in 1988. www.lundhumphries.com 58 elisabeth frink catalogue raisonnÉ of sculPture 1947–93 59
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