Dame Elisabeth Frink’s artist’s palette, approximately 6 × 15 cm.

A rectangular palette retaining extensive deposits of dried paint in blues, greens, reds, pinks and ochres, with overlapping brush marks and areas of thickly accumulated pigment.

Surface wear and cracking to the paint layers, consistent with age and studio use.

Presented diagonally within a white box frame measuring 40 × 40 cm, with an engraved brass identification plaque beneath.

Provenance: gifted to the previous owner by the artist Ernest Oldham, a friend of Frink in Helford, Cornwall, who identified it as belonging to her.

An intimate surviving object from Frink’s working life, retaining the accumulated colours and textures of her creative practice. An unusual and attractively presented piece of artist’s memorabilia.

Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity.