Modern Art & Design 
6 March 2011
Modern Art & Design 
92

Reg Butler

The Unknown Political Prisoner maquette

Studio
1951-52
Wire and metal on a cast plaster base
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $125,000
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17.5h x 6.75 x 7.5
provenance: Reg Butler; Anthony Kloman; Private Collection (purchased from Sotheby's London, December 1963 from the A. J.T. Kloman private collection);Exhibited: International Sculpture Competition: The Unknown Political Prisoner, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, March 14-15, 1953, Tate Gallery.
literature: Art Aujord'Hui, No 5, July 1953, pg 6-11; Masters of Modern Art, Alfred H Barr Jr, New York, 1954, pg 159; New Images of Man, Peter Selz, New York, 1959, pg 42; Motif 6, Spring 1981, pg 31; Sotheby's & Co (Catalog of Modern Drawnings Paintings and Sculpture) December 4th, 1963, pg 46; Ivory Hammer 2: The Year at Sotheby's, Davis et al, 1964, pg 77.

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