“Several pieces in the sale bear inscriptions to Frink from the artist, which gives them a wonderfully personal touch and demonstrates her generosity as a supporter and sometimes benefactor of other artists.”Ī selection of Aboriginal artworks in the collection were used as inspiration for colour and mark-making in Frink’s work these artworks were acquired during and after a trip to Australia and led to a somewhat dramatic colour-change in some of her standing sculptures in the 1960s and ‘70s. “As a well-respected artist in her own right, Dame Elisabeth Frink was naturally friends with other keen creatives such as Guy Taplin, John Piper and Mary Fedden, all of whom have works featuring in the sale,” explained Victor Fauvelle, Paintings specialist at Woolley and Wallis. Many of the objects displayed in the house at Woolland in the Dorset Downs were gifts or exchanges from her contemporaries or works that Frink herself had bought to support younger talented artists, or others that she greatly admired. She was able to play with arrangements, groupings see relationships of forms in different lights and observe juxtapositions and silhouettes.” Curator of the Frink Archive, Annette Ratuszniak, expanded on that to say, “The house and garden reflected her life and pre-occupations as a sculptor. In a series of recordings with the broadcaster, Edward Lucie-Smith, Frink explained that it was important to her that she had “an interesting space to live in”. Over 100 lots of sculpture, paintings, studio ceramics and other artworks are being sold in the Modern British and 20th Century Art auction on 26 th August, all of which had been on display alongside Frink’s own works at her house, garden and studio in Dorset. The paintings, ceramics and other artworks that inspired Dame Elisabeth Frink were packed away in the mid 1990s and only revisited in the last couple of years, following the sudden death of her son and heir, Lin Jammet, in 2017. The collection of one of Britain’s most iconic female sculptors is being sold at auction in Salisbury, after 25 years of lying undiscovered in a barn.
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