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Girl (Striding Girl)
Details
Reg Butler (1913-1981)
Girl (Striding Girl)
stamped with monogram and numbered '4/8' (on the back of the figure's left leg) and stamped with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the figure's right leg)
bronze with a dark brown patina, on a hardwood base
20½ in. (52 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1954.
This work is recorded by the artist as RB124.
Girl (Striding Girl)
stamped with monogram and numbered '4/8' (on the back of the figure's left leg) and stamped with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the figure's right leg)
bronze with a dark brown patina, on a hardwood base
20½ in. (52 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1954.
This work is recorded by the artist as RB124.
Provenance
Purchased by the present owners circa the late 1950s.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, London, Hanover Gallery, 1957, n.p., no. 10, as 'Girl', another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, London, Tate Gallery, 1983, p. 64, no. 50, as 'Girl', another cast illustrated.
M. Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, Much Hadham, 2006, p. 142, no. 147, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, Reg Butler, London, Tate Gallery, 1983, p. 64, no. 50, as 'Girl', another cast illustrated.
M. Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, Much Hadham, 2006, p. 142, no. 147, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Curt Valentin, Reg Butler, January - February 1955, no. 36, as 'Girl', another cast exhibited.
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, 'Art of the XX Century: International Exhibition', Documenta I, 1955, no. 81, another cast exhibited.
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May - June 1957, no. 10, as 'Girl', another cast exhibited.
London, Tate Gallery, Reg Butler, November 1983 - January 1984, no. 50, as 'Girl', another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Reg Butler: Museé Imaginaire: Bronzes Middle & Later Period, September - October 1986, no. 8, as 'Girl', another cast exhibited.
Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, 'Art of the XX Century: International Exhibition', Documenta I, 1955, no. 81, another cast exhibited.
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May - June 1957, no. 10, as 'Girl', another cast exhibited.
London, Tate Gallery, Reg Butler, November 1983 - January 1984, no. 50, as 'Girl', another cast exhibited.
London, Gimpel Fils, Reg Butler: Museé Imaginaire: Bronzes Middle & Later Period, September - October 1986, no. 8, as 'Girl', another cast exhibited.
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