Study for Girl with Chemise

Details

Reg Butler (1913-1981)
Study for Girl with Chemise
bronze with a black patina
20 in. (51 cm.) high, including a slate base
Conceived in 1954.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, New York, Curt Valentin, 1955, no. 38, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, London, Hanover Gallery, 1957, no. 11, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, Berlin, Galerie Springer, 1957, no. 7, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, Düsseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel, 1958, no. 7, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Reg Butler, January - February 1955, no. 38, another cast exhibited.
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May - June 1957, no. 11, another cast exhibited.
Berlin, Galerie Springer, Reg Butler, July - September 1957, no. 7, another cast exhibited.
Düsseldorf, Galerie Alex Vömel, Reg Butler, January 1958, no. 7, another cast exhibited.

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Lot Essay

'Reg Butler patiently and dramatically invites us to explore our human structure and condition. The originality of his work lies more than anywhere in his ability to link the inner experiences of our life with the outer world of fact. This human frame, our palace or our prison, is not only the seat of our joys and our torments but is also the victim of vicissitudes from without. Thanks to his acute sense of tensions and resistances material in this artist's hands becomes endowed with an emotional image of the structure of life' (see Roland Penrose, introduction, exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, New York, Curt Valentin, 1955).

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