Dorset sculptor Elisabeth Frink's only mosaic to go to auction
The collection, titled Ken Bolan: Nature Follows Form, features 400 lots from the dealer, who has been buying and selling antiques for more than 50 years.Sworders said many of the items going on sale come with their own stories, including an 18th-century polychrome painted Danish cupboard dating back to 1772.Mr Bolan said it was "dear to my heart", because it came up for auction just as he had built an extension to his family home."It was going to dominate the room so the whole family looked at it and we all decided that 'yes, we liked it'," he said.
The dealer said he had a "close friendship" with Frink, whom he called "Lis", having first met her when she visited his shop in Bath in 1986."'At that time, I had just begun buying Swedish painted furniture which she absolutely adored," he said."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."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.Sworders estimated it would sell for between £300,000 and £500,000.
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