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Provenance
With Goodman Fine Art, London
Exhibited
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962, 30 October-17 November 1962, cat.no.3 (another cast)
Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October-1 December 1963, cat.no.84 (another cast)
Chalford, Gallery Pangolin, 'Vitalism' British Sculptors of the '50s, 12 November–22 December 2001 (as Figure in Space, another cast)
Literature
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham and Aldershot, 2006, p.152, cat.no.185 (ill.b&w., another cast)
'The figure projected or suspended in space, which grew out of the image of St. Catherine straining against her wheel, was an essential aspect of Butler's iconography between 1953 and 1959; its dynamic rhythms can still be felt in the painted bronzes of the 1970s' (exh.cat, Richard Calvocoressi, Reg Butler, Tate Gallery, 1983, p.26).