Modern British Art
Modern British Art
Property from an Important London Private Collection
Reg Butler
Figure in Space
Lot Closed
November 24, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important London Private Collection
Reg Butler
1913 - 1981
Figure in Space
signed with monogram and numbered 6/8 (on left leg); stamped with foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris (on right leg)
bronze
width: 51cm; 20in.
height: 34.5cm.; 13½in.
Conceived in 1956, the present work is number 6 from the edition of 8.
Sale, Christie's London, 6 June 2003, lot 183
Grosvenor Gallery, London, where acquired by the present owner, March 2004
Colin Ralph, The Colin Collection: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture collected by Mr. & Mrs. Ralph F. Colin, New York, 1960
Margaret Garlake, New Art, New World: British Art in Postwar Society, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1998
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation and Lund Humphries, Hertfordshire, 2006, no. 176, illustrated p. 43 (another cast)