REG BUTLER (BRITISH 1913-1981) §
STUDY FOR CIRCUS, 1959 (RB 164)
Auction: MODERN MADE Part I | 31 October 2024 | Lots 41 to 79
Description
signed with artist's monogram and numbered 7/8, bronze
Dimensions
68cm x 19cm x 17.5cm (26 ½in x 7 ½in x 7in)
Provenance
with James Goodman Gallery, Buffalo, 1964-65, from whom acquired by a Private Collection, Lockport, New York;
James Goodman Gallery, New York. 1999, from whom acquired by a Private Collection, UK;
Acquired from the above by the present owner .
Footnote
Exhibited:
Hanover Gallery, London, Reg Butler: Sculpture, 9 June – 8 July 1960, illustrated in catalogue no.3 (as Circus), another cast;
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York, Twentieth Century Art: The Charles Rand Penney Collection, 11 December – 1 August 1984, illustrated in catalogue, p.21, cat. no.36, touring to Roland Gibson Art Gallery, SUNY-Postdam, New York, October – December 1984; San Jose Museum of Art, California, September – November 1985; Stifel Fine Arts Centre, Wheeling, West Virginia, January – March 1986; Tampa Museum, Florida, June – July 1986; Arkansas Art Centre, Arkansas, August – September 1986; Oklahoma Art Centre, Oklahoma, November – December 1986; Mississippi Museum of Art, Mississippi, January – February 1987; MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, March – May 1987; Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington, June – July 1987; Paine Art Centre, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, September – November 1987; Beaumont Art Museum, Texas, January – February 1988; Meadows Museum, Shreveport, Los Angeles, March – May 1988, another cast.
Literature:
Garlake, Margaret, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, Henry Moore Institute in association with Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2006, p. 152, fig. 187.