Reg Butler (1913-1981) Study for Girl Tying her Hair, 3 signed with monogram and numbered '3/8' (on the base) bronze with a dark brown patina 47 cm. (18 1/2 in.) high Conceived in 1959 Footnotes: Provenance Collection of the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Foundation Exhibited London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler: Sculpture, 9 June-8 July 1960, cat.no.10 (another cast) New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Reg Butler: Recent Sculpture: 1959-1962, 30 October-17 November 1962, cat.no.13 (another cast) Kentucky, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Reg Butler: A Retrospective Exhibition, 22 October-1 December 1963, cat.no.88 (another cast) Literature Margaret Garlake, The Sculpture of Reg Butler, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Much Hadham & Hampshire, 2006, p.155, cat.no.197 (ill.b&w., another cast) This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * AR * VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium. AR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com