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Sculpture 1945 - 1979

Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Reg Butler, Circe Head, 1952-3

Reg Butler 1913-1981

Circe Head, 1952-3
bronze
height 18 3/4 inches
47.6 cm
stamped with artist's monogram and dated edition no.1/8 archive no.RB 980
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1952-3
1952-3

Provenance

Private Collection, UK

Exhibitions

London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, 22 April - 4 June 1954, cat no.9
London, Institiute of Contemporary Arts, Items for Collectors Exhibition, 5 August - 4 September 1954, cat no.12
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Reg Butler, 11 January - 5 February 1955, cat no.14, illus b/w
Munich, Kunstverein, Young British Sculptors 1955-6, British Council, November 1955 - August 1956, touring to:
Stuttgart, Freiberg, Karlsruhe, Recklinghausen, Dusseldorf, Germany and the Netherlands
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May - June 1957, cat no.2, illus b/w
Berlin, Galerie Springer, Reg Butler, July - September 1957, cat no. 2, illus b/w
Louisville, Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October - 1 December 1963, cat no.31, illus b/w
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Symbol and Imagination, 1951-1980, 27 November 1981 - 24 January 1982, cat no.39
London, Tate Gallery, Reg Butler, 16 November 1983 - 15 January 1984, cat no.47, illus b/w
London, Tate Gallery, Suffering Through Tyranny, 1933-1984, December 1984 - May 1985

Literature

Tate Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1984-6, Tate Gallery, London, 1988
Beatriz Sogbe, Reg Butler, Galeria Freites, Caracas, 1992, p7, illus b/w
Margaret Garlake (ed), Artists and Patrons in Post-War Britain, Ashgate, London, 2001, p64-5, illus b/w
Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham & Lund Humphries, London, 2006, cat no.111, illus b/w fig. 68 and p15

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