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Reg Butler
(British, 1913-1981)
Cassandra 68cm (26 3/4in) high

16 July 2025, 12:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Reg Butler (British, 1913-1981)

Cassandra
stamped with monogram and numbered '5/8' (to base); further stamped with foundry mark 'Susse Fondeur Paris' (to base)
bronze with a brown patina
68cm (26 3/4in) high
Conceived circa 1953-54

Footnotes

Exhibited
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May-June 1954, no. 3 (another cast)
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Reg Butler, January-February 1955, no. 17 (another cast)
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May-June 1957, no. 3 (another cast)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, 27 October-7 January 1962, no. 458 (another cast)
Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October-1 December 1963, no. 50 (another cast)

Literature
A.Franklin Page, Recent Gifts from the Friends of Modern Art, Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts, vol. 6, no. 3 (1956–7), pp.70-71, illustrated (another cast)
M. Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in Association with Lund Humphries, Much Hardham, 2006, p. 137, no. 122, illustrated (another cast)

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