Chris Beetles Gallery

William Shakespeare

James Butler (1931-2022)

Price

£12,500

Signed

Signed and numbered IV/X

Medium

Bronze

Dimensions

22 ¼ x 6 ½ x 7 ¼ inches

Literature

John Meulkens, James Butler an Extended Personal View of a Collector, Radway: John Meulkens and James Butler, 2013 (Third Edition), page 241 (Life size Illustrated)

Exhibited

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, 2020, no 1128;
'James Butler RA Remembered', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, May-June 2023, no 4

Number four from an edition of ten
On a circular Kilkenny stone base measuring: 8 3/4 (diameter) x 1 1/2 inches

Maquette for the eight-foot sculpture, commissioned by Tony Bird OBE, unveiled in Stratford-upon-Avon, 25 April 2020. It is sited at the opposite end of Henley Street facing Butler's other sculpture, The Jester, Touchstone, from Shakespeare's As You Like It and close to the house known as Shakespeare's Birthplace.

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