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Dame Elisabeth Frink R.A. (British, 1930-1993) Chinese Horse III (Standing) signed and numbered 'Frink 1/8' (on the rear left hoof) bronze with a light green patina 48 cm. (19 in.) high Conceived in 1989 Fußnoten Provenance With Ian Courcoux, Hampshire, 8 February 1990, where purchased by the present owner Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited London, Fischer Fine Art, Elisabeth Frink; Recent Sculpture and Drawings, 5 October-9 November 1989, cat.no.17 (another cast) Glasgow, Compass Gallery, Elisabeth Frink; Sculpture, Drawings, Etchings, 4-31 August 1990 (another cast) Washington D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Elisabeth Frink; Sculpture and Drawings 1950-90, 1990 (another cast) Salisbury, Salisbury Cathedral & Close, Elisabeth Frink; A Certain Unexpectedness, 1997 (another cast) Dorset, Bournemouth University, Elisabeth Frink, This Fleeting World, 2011-12 (another cast) Literature Edward Lucie-Smith (ed.), Elisabeth Frink; Sculpture Since 1984 and Drawings, Art Books International, London, 1994, p.188, cat.no.SC47 (ill.b&w, another cast) Annette Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink; Catalogue Raisonné of Sculpture 1947-93, Lund Humphries, Farnham, 2013, p.181, cat.no.376 (ill.b&w, another cast) Another cast of Chinese Horse III (Standing) is in the collection of The New Art Gallery, Walsall. Although surrounded by racing horses at her home in Woolland, Frink instead turned to primitive depictions of horses for the majority of her sculptures from this period. Drawing inspiration from her time spent with the horses of Camargue, Frink here displays the steady, stocky reliability reminiscent of the cave paintings at Lascaux. As seen in her Water Buffalo sculptures, here too we are able to see Frink turning to Chinese art as a source of inspiration, drawing on numerous depictions as well as terracotta models of horses in varying positions.