About this artwork
Frink made four giant heads for the Montague shopping centre in Worthing, West Sussex, England. She remarked: ‘I called the 'Desert Heads' that because I connected them with the feeling I got in the desert in Tunisia. They portray individuals and also they go together collectively. The way I worked on them was in pairs, moving from one to the other.’ The four heads were each cast in editions of six. This cast is numbered 6/6 and carries the ‘MS’ monogram of the Morris Singer bronze foundry.
Published November 2021
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artist:Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) English
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title:Desert Quartet III
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date created:1989
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materials:Bronze
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measurements:127.00 x 115.60 x 76.20 cm
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object type:
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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 5681
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gallery:
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...