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Lot 13AR

Reg Butler
(British, 1913-1981)
Summer 54.6 cm. (21 1/2 in.) high (including the base)

14 November 2018, 15:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £20,000 inc. premium

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Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981)

Summer
signed with monogram, numbered '5/8' and stamped with a Susse foundry stamp (on the base)
bronze with a golden patina
54.6 cm. (21 1/2 in.) high (including the base)
Conceived in 1955-6 and cast in 1956

Footnotes

Provenance
Cyril and June Mardall

Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May-June 1957, cat.no.24 (another cast)
New York, Pierre Matisse, Reg Butler: Sculpture & Drawings, 1954 to 1958, February 1959, cat.no.7 (another cast)
Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October-1 December 1963, cat.65 (another cast)

Literature
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humprhies, Much Hadham and Aldershot, 2006, p.146, cat.no.164 (ill.b&w, another cast)

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