Elisabeth Frink
Head
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About this artwork
The disembodied animal head and the screaming human head became recurring themes of post-war art – seen for example in the work of Francis Bacon. This head conjures up on the one hand the mood of the nuclear age and the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps (Frink forever remembered seeing the cinema newsreels) as well as the age of austerity. This Head was cast in bronze in an edition of six.
Published November 2021
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artist:Elisabeth FrinkEnglish (1930 - 1993)
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title:Head
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date created:1959
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materials:Bronze
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measurements:22.90 cm (height)
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credit line:Provided to the National Galleries of Scotland in accordance with the wishes of the artist’s late son, Lyn Jammet, 2020
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accession number:GMA 5674
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Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink’s artistic career was launched at the age of twenty-two with her first solo exhibition. Linked with the group of post-war British sculptors that included Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi, she is perhaps best known for her expressionistic animal figures and popular public sculpture...
