
Not on display
- Artist
- Reg Butler 1913–1981
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 1778 × 406 × 241 mm, 120.6 kg (25.6kg figure / 95kg base)
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1954
- Reference
- N06223
Display caption
Gallery label, April 2005
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Catalogue entry
N06223 GIRL 1953–4
Not inscribed.
Bronze, 70×16×9 1/2 (178×40·5×24).
Purchased from the Hanover Gallery (Knapping Fund) 1954.
Exh: Hanover Gallery, April–June 1954 (38, repr.).
Lit: John Rothenstein, The Tate Gallery, 1958, pp.191–2, repr. pl.22.
Repr: Tate Gallery Report, 1954–55, 1955, facing p.19; Sir John Rothenstein, British Art since 1900, 1962, pl.130.
The artist has written (20 August 1955) that ‘“Girl” is the first full-size “volume” sculpture executed by me since 1948. She bears some relation to the “Girl with a Surfboard” (bronze) executed in 1947–48 - the last “volume” sculpture before the iron figures 1948–51. The grid on which she stands is presumably inherited from the “open” iron figures of preceding years [e.g. N05942].’
This is the fourth of an edition of seven casts. The first was exhibited in British Paintings and Sculpture, Whitechapel Art Gallery, September–October 1954 (63), and belongs to the British Council. Other casts are at Bristol, The Hague and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The work, opus 119 in the Hanover Gallery's numbering, is one of several different studies of a girl with a vest made between 1953 and 1957. The related ‘Study for Girl’, 1953 (opus 103; bronze, 34 in. high), was exhibited at the Hanover Gallery, April–June 1954 (36), and at the Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, January–February 1955 (36), where another cast of N06223 was entitled ‘Girl with a Vest’. Among later developments of the theme are ‘Study for Girl with Chemise’ (repr. exh. cat., Hanover Gallery, May–June 1957 (11)), ‘Study for Girl with Vest’, 1955 (repr. exh. cat., Hanover Gallery, May–June 1957 (16)) and ‘Girl’, 1956–7 (repr. exh. cat., Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, February 1959 (17)).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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