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DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)

Lot 61
03.02.2022 00:00UTC +00:00
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 700101
Lot 61 | DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)
Estimate value
$ 4 000 – 8 000
DAVID BUTLER (1898-1997)

Walking Stick with Figure, circa 1975

paint and found objects on cut metal with umbrella handle

33 3⁄4 in. high, 13 1⁄4 in. wide, 6 in. deep (including stand)







Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist, 1976





Literature

Jane Livingston and John Beardsley, Black Folk Art in America 1930-1980 (Mississippi, 1982), cat. no. 48, ill. p.10.

Karla Albertson, Passionate Visions of the American South, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, December 17, 1993, p. 74.





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.

Baltimore, American Visionary Art Museum, We Are Not Alone: Angels and Other Aliens, 2 October 1999- 3 September 2000.
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