Reg Butler

FIGURE IN SPACE

Artist's Resale RightVAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

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November 17, 02:25 PM GMT

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Description

Ground Breaking: Works from the Collection of Joseph & Blanche Blank

REG BUTLER

1913 - 1981

FIGURE IN SPACE

stamped with the Artist's monogram, stamped with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris and numbered 6/8 (on the the base)

bronze

height (overall): 70cm.; 27in.

width: 40cm.; 15¾in.

Conceived in 1959 and cast by Susse Founder, Paris, the present work is number 6 from the edition of 8.

Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 2006, no. 184, illustrated p. 151 (another cast)

London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture, 9 June - 8 July 1960, no. 11 (another cast)
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962, 30 October - 17 November 1962, no. 2 (another cast)
Louisville, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective, 22 October - 1 December 1963, no. 83 (another cast)

We are grateful to Margaret Garlake for her kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.