bronze with a mid-brown patina and white painted face
205.7 cm
signed and numbered ‘Frink 2/4’ on right foot
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Riace III, 1986
Exhibition History:
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
Woking, The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, 21 November 2015 – 31 January 2016;
London, Royal College of General Practitioners, Health and the Body, 3 March – 29 May 2016;
Woking, The Lightbox, In Their Own Words: Artists’ Voices from The Ingram Collection, 20 May – 30 July 2017;
Aylesbury, Bucks County Museum, Elisabeth Frink, 10 February – 21 April 2018;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Elisabeth Frink: Fragility and Power, 22 June – 29 September 2018;
Woking, The Lightbox, Elisabeth Frink: A Collector’s Passion, 13 October 2018 – 6 January 2019;
Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Reflection: British Art in an Age of Change, 17 August 2019 – 5 January 2020
Literature:
E. Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture since 1984 and Drawings, London, 1994 (illustrated, p.188)
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture 1947-1993, London, 2013 (another cast illustrated, p. 179, no. FCR370)
This work is from a series of sculptures which were inspired by two fifth-century Greek statues of warriors found in the sea off Calabria, southern Italy, in the 1970s. These mercenaries demanded their payment in the form of sacrifice. Dame Elisabeth Frink found the combination of beauty and uneasiness in the original sculpture appealing.
