Lot 47
REG BUTLER (BRITISH 1913-1981) §
GIRL, 1956
Auction: The Ursula & Gordon Bowyer Collection | Lots 1 to 79 | Thurs 30 October from 5pm
Description
signed with monogram, numbered 4/8 and inscribed Susse Fondeur, Paris (to integral base), bronze
Dimensions
50cm high (19 ¾in high)
Provenance
The Collection of Gordon & Ursula Bowyer.
Footnote
Exhibited:
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May - June 1957, no.31 (another cast exhibited)
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture & Drawings 1954-1958, February 1959, no. 12 (another cast exhibited)
Literature:
Garlake, Margaret, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, 2006, no.172 (RB149), another cast illustrated p.148
Another cast from the edition of eight is in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.