Ground Breaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank
Reg Butler
Study for Italian Girl, 2
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Ground Breaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank
Reg Butler
1913 - 1981
Study for Italian Girl, 2
inscribed with the Artist's monogram, numbered 2/8 and stamped with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris (on the base)
bronze
length: 48cm.; 19in.
height: 14cm.; 5½in.
Conceived in 1960 and cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 8.
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture, 9 June - 8 July 1960, no. 12 (another cast)
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962, 30 October - 17 November 1962, no. 21 (another cast), illustrated in the catalogue n.p.
Louisville, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective, 22 October - 1 December 1963, no. 91 (another cast), illustrated in the catalogue n.p.
Diane Kirkpatrick, 'Modern British Sculpture at the University of Michigan Museum of Art', Bulletin of Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, Vol. 4, 1981, pp. 54-71, p. 58, illustrated fig. 5 (another cast)
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 2006, pp. 67, 158, no. 206, illustrated fig. 59 (another cast)
