DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997) - photo 1

DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)

Lot 105
03.02.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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$ 26 250
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 699992
Lot 105 | DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 – 3 000
DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)

Mermaid, circa 1975

paint and plastic on metal

13 3⁄4 x 28 in.







Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1975





Literature

Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980 (Mississippi, 1982), cat. no. 44, pg. 171.





Exhibited

New Orleans Museum of Art, David Butler, 13 February- 21 March 1976; New Orleans, Morgan City Municipal Auditorium, 11 April- 9 May 1976.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, America Now: A Look at the Arts of the 70's, 13 June- 14 July; Zagreb, Yugoslavia, 6 September- 4 October 1979; Budapest, Hungary, 2 June- 28 June 1980; Bucharest, Romania, 1 September- 25 September 1980.

Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980, 15 Jan- 28 March; Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Museum, 26 April- 13 June; Brooklyn Museum of Art, 4 July- 12 September 1982; California, Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 30 November- 3 February 1983; Houston, Rice University, 4 March- 15 May 1983; Detroit Institute for the Arts, 10 July- 2 October; Birmingham, Alabama, Birmingham Museum of Art, 6 November- 26 December; Chicago, Illinois, Field Museum of Natural History, 26 December- 15 July 1984.
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