{"id":346026,"date":"2025-08-15T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346026\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T08:06:11","slug":"dorset-sculptor-elisabeth-frinks-only-mosaic-to-go-to-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346026\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset sculptor Elisabeth Frink&#8217;s only mosaic to go to auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The dealer said he had a &#8220;close friendship&#8221; with Frink, whom he called &#8220;Lis&#8221;, having first met her when she visited his shop in Bath in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;&#8216;At that time, I had just begun buying Swedish painted furniture which she absolutely adored,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Over the next few months, after discovering my old brewery in Gillingham, she bought numerous painted items from me, and we developed a close friendship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After Frink died in 1993, Mr Bolan helped her son sell the furnishings from the estate. After that, he bought The Money and the Dolphin mosaic, which Frink had designed circa 1987.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sworders estimated it would sell for between \u00a3300,000 and \u00a3500,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The dealer said he had a &#8220;close friendship&#8221; with Frink, whom he called &#8220;Lis&#8221;, having first met her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115031755384884291","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}