This superb drawing is connected with Frink’s contemporaneous commission for a Head of Christ in bronze for All Saints Church, Basingstoke.
Religious commissions are a key feature of Frink’s oeuvre. Edward Lucie Smith writes that although Frink had severed her connection with organised religion, she was still essentially a believer, and the iconography of the Christian faith remained meaningful to her. In particular she was able to assimilate her own feeling for heroic male figures with the image of The Crucifixion or Risen Christ.

Frink described the Basingstoke head as a ‘’very contemplative piece’’.

The drawing was sent immediately to her American dealer ,Terry Dintenfass, and is being shown in England for the first time.