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Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3 46 cm. (18 in.) high RB176 (Conceived in 1959) image 1
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3 46 cm. (18 in.) high RB176 (Conceived in 1959) image 2
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3 46 cm. (18 in.) high RB176 (Conceived in 1959) image 3
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3 46 cm. (18 in.) high RB176 (Conceived in 1959) image 4
Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981) Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3 46 cm. (18 in.) high RB176 (Conceived in 1959) image 5
Lot 15AR

Reg Butler
(British, 1913-1981)
Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3 46 cm. (18 in.) high RB176

4 – 15 July 2025, 12:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £10,000

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Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981)

Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3
signed with monogram and numbered '4/8' (on the base)
bronze with a brown patina
46 cm. (18 in.) high
RB176
Conceived in 1959

Footnotes

Provenance
With Alan Wheatley, London, where acquired by the present owners

Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture, June-July 1960, cat.no.10 (another cast)
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962, 30 October-17 November 1962, cat.no.13 (another cast)
Kentucky, Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October-1 December, cat.no.88 (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.155, cat.no.197 (ill.b&w, another cast)
Robert Melville, 'In Connection with the Sculpture of Reg Butler', Motif, no.6, 1961, pp.27-39

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