ID 1051436
Lot 141 | REG BUTLER (1913-1981)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
Musée Imaginaire
each stamped with monogram and numbered '7⁄9'
bronze with a dark brown patina, in 39 parts, in a white-painted wooden display cabinet
30 ½ x 48 ½ in. (77.5 x 122.5 cm.)
(39)Conceived in 1961-62 and cast in 1963 by Valsuani Foundry, Paris.
Provenance
Mr and Mrs Allan D. Emil, New York, and by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, London, Tate Gallery, 1983, pp. 15, 68, no. 63, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler: Musée Imaginaire: Bronzes Middle & Late Period, London, Gimpel Fils, 1986, another cast illustrated on the cover.
The Tate Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1984-86, London, 1988, pp. 117-118, 500, no. T03703, another cast illustrated.
M. Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, Much Hadham, 2006, pp. 18-19, 162, no. 224, pl. 4, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture and Drawings, July - September 1963, no. 16, as 'Series of Small Bronzes', another cast exhibited.
Caracas, Galería Freites, Reg Butler: Esculturas en Bronze, May - June 1983, another cast exhibited.
London, Tate Gallery, Reg Butler, November 1983 - January 1984, no. 63, another cast exhibited.
| Artist: | Reg Butler (1913 - 1981) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Artist: | Reg Butler (1913 - 1981) |
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| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
| Medium: | Bronze |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Address of auction |
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