Lot Closed
November 17, 02:33 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, United States
REG BUTLER
1913 - 1981
GIRL
stamped with the Artist's monogram, stamped with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris and numbered 8/8 (on the base)
bronze
height: 150cm.; 59in.
Conceived in 1956-7, the present work is number 8 from the edition of 8.
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, where acquired by the previous owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Nottingham, Castle Museum, Contemporary British Sculpture, 25 May - 15 June 1957, no. 4 (another cast), with Arts Council Tour
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture and Drawings 1954-1958, February 1959, no. 17, illustrated in the catalogue (another cast)
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture, 9 June - 8 July 1960, no. 25 (another cast)
Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October - 1 December 1963, no. 71 (another cast)
London, Tate, Reg Butler, 16 November 1983 - 15 January 1984, no. 56 (another cast)
Walter Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain: A Comprehensive Guide, Zwemmer Ltd., Tate Publications, London, 1984, no. 444 (as Girl with Arm Raised, another cast)
Penelope Curtis, Sculpture in 20th Century Britain, Vol. II, A Guide To Sculptors In The Leeds Collection, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2003, illustrated p. 31 (another cast)
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2006, no. 178, illustrated p. 150 (another cast)
We are grateful to Margaret Garlake for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
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