Reg Butler (1913-1981) St Catherine signed with monogram, numbered '7/8' and stamped with a Susse foundry stamp (on the base) bronze with a black patina 45 cm. (17 3/4 in.) wide Conceived in 1959 Footnotes: Provenance Sale; Christie's, London, 6 November 1998, lot 232, where purchased by Gallery Pangolin, Chalford, by whom gifted to the present owner on his retirement Private Collection, U.K. Exhibited London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture, June-July 1960, cat.no.5 New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962, 30 October-17 November 1962, cat.no.3 Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October-1 December 1963, cat.no.84 Chalford, Gallery Pangolin, 'Vitalism' British Sculptors of the '50s, 12 November–22 December 2001 (as Figure in Space) Literature Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham & Hampshire, 2006, p.152, cat.no.185 (ill.b&w., another cast) The present work was titled Figure in Space in the Gallery Pangolin exhibition in 2001 under the instruction of the Artist's widow Rosemary Butler. We are grateful to Margaret Garlake for her assistance in cataloguing this lot. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: AR AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com