Reg Butler
British 1913 - 1981
Signed and Dated 'Butler 57'
42.6 x 41.9 cm (16.75 x 16.5 in)
One of a series of ‘pencil drawings in which the female figure is articulated like a manikin and sometimes clad in protective armour plating. Butler returned to this idea of a jointed figure in the sculpture which he entered for the Jubilee exhibition at Battersea Park in 1977’
Bibliography: R. Calvocoressi, Exhibition Catalogue, Tate Gallery, Reg Butler, 1983