London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, May – June 1957 (another cast illustrated in black and white in the exhibition catalogue, no. 20, p. 20);
London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, June – July 1960 (another cast illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 25, p. 29);
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
London, Sotheby’s, Sculpture and Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 10 – 21 January 2011;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
Woking, The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, 21 November 2015 – 31 January 2016;
Woking, The Lightbox, Picturing People, 20 January – 1 April 2018
Literature:
Margaret Garlake, Sculpture of Reg Butler, Henry Moore Foundation, 2006 (another edition illustrated, no. 179, p. 150, RB156);
Melville, Motif, 1961 (no. 6)
Reg Butler’s preoccupation with the female form continued throughout his career. Girl Looking Down is a more voluptuous rendering of the stretched pose seen in Study for a Girl with a Vest, with both girls reaching their arms over their heads. These two works are an early realisation of Butler’s interest in the extreme contortions and anatomical exaggerations which became a feature of his later work.
