Reg Butler

GIRL PULLING SHIRT OVER HER HEAD

Artist's Resale Right

Lot Closed

November 17, 03:14 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

A Sense of Form: Property from a Private British Collection

REG BUTLER

1913 - 1981

GIRL PULLING SHIRT OVER HER HEAD

bronze

height (including base): 53.5cm.; 21in.

width: 13cm.; 5 ¼in.

Conceived in 1958, the present work is from the edition of 8.

Mr and Mrs H. Gates Lloyd

Sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1994, lot 184, where acquired by David Bowie

His sale, Sotheby's, London, Bowie/Collector - Part II: Modern and Contemporary Art, Day Auction, 11 November 2016, lot 111, where acquired by the present owner

Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in Association with Lund Humphries, London, no. 146, illustrated p. 142***is it this - ask margaret garlake, is identical other than base

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