bronze with brown patina, modelled with wings outstretched, signed and numbered 2/10 to the socle base
29cm high excluding base

Provenance:
Collection of the late Sir Georg and Lady Solti

Literature:
Edward Lucie-Smith, Elisabeth Frink: Sculpture and Drawing since 1984, Art Books International, London 1994, SC11a, illustrated p.184 (plaster illustrated)
A. Ratuszniak (Ed.) Elisabeth Frink, Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture 1947-93, London 2013, p.166, no. FCR333, another cast illustrated

Conceived in 1984 in an edition of just ten, the present work is a maquette for Frink’s larger work of the same title. Standing sentinel at the Eagle Squadron Association Memorial in Grosvenor Square, London, the work memorialises the work of the largely American complement of fighter pilots and other personnel who served in the three Royal Air Force ‘Eagle Squadrons’ prior to the participation of the United States of America in World War II. Recognised as a national emblem for the United States since 1782, Frink utilises the allegorical figure of the eagle to commemorate the valour and strength of the fallen men.