MODERN SCULPTURE COLLECTION

REG BUTLER
[1913-81]

REG BUTLER

Girl Tying Her Hair 1V
1959
bronze
1/8
signed
34 cm high
Provenance: The artist;
Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY;
Leslie Hindman auction
16 May 1993, lot 309

REG BUTLER

Standing Figure
Woman in Stays
1956
bronze
2/8 signed
50 cm high
Provenance: Pierre Matisse
Gallery, New York, c. 1959

REG BUTLER - Italian Girl 3, 1960, bronze, 1/8, signed, 43 cm long
Provenance: The artist; Pierre Matisse Gallery; Pierre Matisse family
Literature: 'The Sculpture of Reg Butler', M Garlake, p. 67 and 158

REG BUTLER
Acrobat, 1957
pencil, signed
50 x 69 cm

Provenance:
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York;
Staemphli Gallery, New York;
Sothebys auction, New York, 29.9.1994, lot 299;
Joseph & Blanche Blank collection;
Sothebys auction, London, 17.11.2020, lot 328, 'The Joseph & Blanche Blank collection'.

Reg Butler was a welder and modeller who was one of the 'Geometry of Fear' artists and became internationally famous after winning the 'Unknown Political Prisoner' sculpture competition in 1953.
He was one of Hanover Gallery's main artists and they sold his work very successfully internationally [particularly in the USA] in the 1950s and 1960s.
Many public collections include his sculpture including the Tate Gallery and Museum of Modern Art [New York].
A catalogue raisonne was published by Lund Humphries in 2006.