Catalogue entry
Reg Butler 1913-1981
T03392 Woman1949
Forged and welded iron 335 x 109 x 107 (13 1/4 x 4 1/4 x 4 1/8) including integral fired clay base
Incised ‘S' in top of base near corner
Purchased from Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
Prov:Hanover Gallery, bt Marcus Whiffen 1949; ... ; sold Sotheby's, New York, 18 Dec. 1981 (66, repr., as ‘Maquette, 1948') bt Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York.
Exh: Sculptures in Iron by Reg Butler, Hanover Gallery, July-Aug. 1949 (2); Reg Butler, A Retrospective Exhibition, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, Oct.-Dec. 1963 (7); Reg Butler, Tate Gallery, Nov. 1983-Jan. 1984 (16, repr., as ‘Maquette for Woman')
Lit: Richard Calvocoressi, ‘Reg Butler: The Man and the Work' in Reg Butler, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, 1983, pp… (read more)
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