This effervescent bronze is part of the edition of 7 commissioned by the Zoological Society of London in 1967. Frink’s first sculpture of a boar was done for Harlow New Town in 1957. She returned to the subject in a variety of media and on a variety of scales throughout her life, but the catalyst for this particular bronze was the artist’s move to the Camargue in 1967 as the surrounding countryside was over-run with wild boar.
Frink spoke of the attraction of an animal whose Celtic associations were of warfare and aggression.