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Elisabeth Frink was a neo-figurative English sculptor and printmaker. She was born in Thurlow (Suffolk) in 1930. She studied at the Guildford School of Art (1946-1949), then at the Chelsea College of Art and Design under Bernard Meadows from 1950 to 1953. She was close to a postwar group of British sculptors as such Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows or Eduardo Paolozzi, called « The Geometry of Fear ». Frink’s subject matter included animals and humans (men, birds, dogs, horses);...
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Biography of Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink was a neo-figurative English sculptor and printmaker. She was born in Thurlow (Suffolk) in 1930. She studied at the Guildford School of Art (1946-1949), then at the Chelsea College of Art and Design under Bernard Meadows from 1950 to 1953. She was close to a postwar group of British sculptors as such Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows or Eduardo Paolozzi, called « The Geometry of Fear ». Frink’s subject matter included animals and humans (men, birds, dogs, horses); religious motif was also a favorite subject. Her sculptures, her graphic artwork (lithographs and etchings) and her book illustrations, drew on archetypes expressing masculine strength and aggression. Working in France from 1967 to 1970, Elisabeth Frink produced monumental male heads, a series of threatening faces. On returning to England, she focuses on the male nude, barrel-chested. Several well known museums in the world acquired her sculptures. In 1987, the Royal Academy did a huge retrospective of her work. Elisabeth Frink died in Blandford Forum (Dorset) in 1993.
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Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
* « Elisabeth Frink - Sculpture », Peter Shaffer, Bryan Robertson. Harpvale Books, Salisbury, 1984 * « Elisabeth Frink : sculpture since 1984 and drawing »s, E. Lucie-Smith, Art Books International, Londres, 1994 * « Elisabeth Frink: original prints catalogue raisonné », Caroline Wiseman, Art Books International, Londres, 1998 * « Sculpture 1947-1993 », Annette Ratuszniak, Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 2013 All the "catalogues raisonnés"Bibliographic track & more
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* « Elisabeth Frink », catalogue d'exposition, Waddington Galleries, 1972* « Elisabeth Frink - Rétrospective », catalogue d'exposition, Royal Academy of Arts, Londres, 1987
* « Frink: A portrait », E. Lucie-Smith, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1994
* « Elisabeth Frink: The Official Biography ». Stephen Gardiner, Harper Collins Publishers, 1998
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- + MODERN SCULPTURE / 1930-1970 / William Kenneth Armiage, Constantin Brancusi, Anthony Caro, Naum Gabo, Pablo Gargallo, Isamu Noguchi, etc.
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