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Ground Breaking: Works from the collects ion of Joseph & Blanche Blank

Reg Butler

Study for Italian Girl, 2

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September 14, 12:53 PM GTNN

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4,000 - 6,000 GBP

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Ground Breaking: Works from the collects ion of Joseph & Blanche Blank

Reg Butler

1913 - 1981

Study for Italian Girl, 2


inscribed with the Artist's monogram, numbered 2/8 and stamped with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris (on the base)

bronze

length: 48cm.; 19in.

height: 14cm.; 5½in.

Conceived in 1960 and cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 8.

London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture, 9 June - 8 July 1960, no. 12 (another cast)
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962, 30 October - 17 November 1962, no. 21 (another cast)
Louisville, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective, 22 October - 1 December 1963, no. 91 (another cast)
New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962 (exh. cat), October 30 – November 17 1962, no. 22, illustrated in the catalogue n.p
Louisville, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition (exh. cat), October 22 – December 1963, no. 92, illustrated in the catalogue n.p.
Diane Kirkpatrick, 'Modern British Sculpture at the University of Michigan Museum of Art', Bulletin of Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Michigan, Vol. 4, 1981, pp. 54-71, p. 58, illustrated fig. 5 (another cast) 
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, London, 2006, pp. 67, 158, no. 206, illustrated fig. 59 (another cast)