Reclining figure

Details

REG BUTLER (BRITISH, 1913-1981)
Reclining figure
signed and dated 'Butler 57' (lower right)
pencil
16.¾ x 16.½ in. (42.6 x 41.9 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The present work appears to be one of a number of 1957 'pencil drawings in which the female figure is articulated like a manikin and sometimes clad in protective armour plating. Much later Butler returned to this idea of a jointed figure in the sculpture which he entered for the Jubilee exhibition at Battersea Park in 1977' (R. Calvocoressi, Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Gallery, Reg Butler, 1983, pp. 29-30).

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