
Dame Elisabeth Frink RA
Harbinger Bird I, 1961
bronze with a dark brown patina
44.4 cm; 17 ½ in high
Edition of 6
JC118
© The Elisabeth Frink Estate and Archive. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2024
Provenance
with Bertha Schaeffer Gallery, London, where purchased by a New England Collector, circa 1962.The Property of a New England Collector; Christie’s, London, 17 November 2006, lot 147, where purchased
Exhibitions
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, January - April 2018.London, Sotheby's, Jerwood Collection: 25, June 2018.
London, Lyon & Turnbull, Sculpted: The Art of the Object, 28 November - 11 December 2018.
Welbeck, Harley Gallery, A Curator's Choice, May-August 2021.
London, Barbican Centre, Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965, 3 March - 26 June 2022.
Literature
B. Robertson, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonne, Salisbury, 1984, p. 153, no. 75, another cast illustrated.Collection catalogue, Jerwood Collection, London, 2012, p. 31
Exhibition Catalogue, Jerwood Collection; 25, 2018, p.29, illustrated.
Exhibition Catalogue, Postwar Modern New Art in Britain, London, 2022, p. 76, illustrated.
Art Quarterly, Winter 2023, 2023, p.51, illustrated.