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Aesop’s Fables: The Belly And Its Members

Elisabeth Frink

Pomegranate Fine Art United Kingdom

Artwork details

Artist: Elisabeth Frink
Title: Aesop’s Fables: The Belly And Its Members
Description: One of the lithographic reproductions of the original watercolours Frink did for this book, printed at the Curwen Print Studio with master lithographer Stanley Jones...we have several more of these as well as three of the original lithographs also made for this book. Her biographer wrote 'They were exquisite.... an excellent outlet for Lis's love of graphics...beautiful drawings: the superlatives run out....the drawings and watercolours looked as though they had been straight on to the page, so excellent was the printing'. . Mounted with a double mount and backing board ready for framing. (NB with mount and backing board the overall size is 20 x 16 ins.)
Date: 1968
Medium: Lithograph
Edition: 225
Signature: Unsigned
Sheet: 20 x 16 cm
Status: Available
Price: £325.00

The Artist

Elisabeth Frink

Dame Elisabeth Frink was born in 1930 in Suffolk, England. She is known for her sculpting and printmaking. From 1946-1949 she studied at the Guildford School of Arts and then at the Chelsea School of Art from 1949 to 1953. Frink’s subject manner in her earlier pieces include birds, men, horses and religious motifs. She very rarely designed pictures or sculptures of the female form.