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Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Cassandra 68 cm. (26 3/4 in.) high (Conceived circa 1953-54) image 1
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Cassandra 68 cm. (26 3/4 in.) high (Conceived circa 1953-54) image 2
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Cassandra 68 cm. (26 3/4 in.) high (Conceived circa 1953-54) image 3
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Cassandra 68 cm. (26 3/4 in.) high (Conceived circa 1953-54) image 4
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Cassandra 68 cm. (26 3/4 in.) high (Conceived circa 1953-54) image 5
Lot 91AR

Reg Butler
(British, 1913-1981)
Cassandra 68 cm. (26 3/4 in.) high

19 June 2024, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £14,080 inc. premium

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Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981)

Cassandra
stamped with monogram and numbered '8/8' (on the base); further stamped with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (on the base)
bronze with a brown patina
68 cm. (26 3/4 in.) high
Conceived circa 1953-54

Footnotes

Provenance
Private Collection, Europe, where acquired by the present owner

Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May-June 1954, cat.no.3 (another cast)
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Reg Butler, January-February 1955, cat.no.17 (another cast)
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May-June 1957, cat.no.3 (another cast)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, 27 October-7 January 1962, cat.no.458 (another cast)
Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October-1 December 1963, cat.no.50 (another cast)

Literature
Addison Franklin Page, Recent Gifts from the Friends of Modern Art, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol.6, No.3 (1956–7), pp.70-71 (ill., another cast)
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in Association with Lund Humphries, Much Hardham, 2006, p.137, cat.no.122 (ill.b&w, another cast)

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