Reg Butler: career timeline

British · 1913–1981 · Works grouped by the decade they were made (the cataloged date, or a date in the signature or title), not by sale date. 20 of 23 lots (87% of works) have a usable creation date; the others are listed at the end by the decade they were sold. Each work is shown once, even when it sold more than once.

Reg Butler: works at auction by decade the work was made. Each work counted once; medians use sold works only, in US dollars.

Decade made	Works	Sold	Median sold price	Main medium
1950s	8	7	$8.6kSign up	Sculpture
1960s	11	8	$178Sign up	Lithograph
1970s	1	1	$3kSign up	Other

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Year madeHeight (in)Width (in)MediumSubject

1950s 8 works

Sold: 7 of 8
Median: $8.6kSign up
Average: $26.8kSign up
Typical size: 28.5 × 14.5 in (72 × 37 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (7), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (4)

1951 Girl, conceived 1951$8.6kSign up
c. 1951 The Unknown Political Prisoner maquette$125kSign up
1954 Torso$3.8kSign up
1955 NUDE WITH NEWSPRINT, 1955$1.2kSign up
1959 Girl on a Wheel, 2$30.5kSign up
1959 STUDY FOR CIRCUS, 1959 (RB 164)Unsold
1959 Girl on a Wheel, 2$16.9kSign up
1959 Head$1.9kSign up

1960s 11 works

Sold: 8 of 11
Median: $178Sign up
Average: $1.3kSign up
Typical size: 21.5 × 18.5 in (55 × 47 cm)
Mediums: Lithograph (6), Sculpture (3), Other (2)
Subjects: Figures & portraits (10)

1963 Italien Girl$111Sign up
1963 Figure in space$126Sign up
1964 Seated Figure$1.9kSign up
1965 Seated Girl, 1965, castResult not published
1966 Three Quarter Figure II, 1966$7.9kSign up
1966 Studio per figure in space 1966Unsold
1966 Studio per figure in space 1966Unsold
1968 Girl$200Sign up
1968 2 sheets: Girl. Tower$260Sign up
1968 Girl$156Sign up
1968 Tower$156Sign up

1970s 1 work

Sold: 1 of 1
Median: $3kSign up
Average: $3kSign up
Typical size: 26.5 × 36 in (67 × 92 cm)
Mediums: Other (1)
Subjects: —

1973 RECLINING NUDE, 1973$3kSign up

Creation date not recorded

3 works have no cataloged or signed date. They are grouped here by the decade they were last sold, which says nothing about when they were made.

Undated, sold in the 2020s 3 works

Sold: 3 of 3
Median: $5.4kSign up
Average: $3.9kSign up
Typical size: 8.5 × 2.5 in (22 × 7 cm)
Mediums: Sculpture (2), Lithograph (1)
Subjects: —

sold 2020 Ohne Titel$5.9kSign up
sold 2025 Untitled$241Sign up
sold 2025 Nude Female Form$5.4kSign up

Medians and averages count sold works only (each work's most recent sale), in US dollars at the sale-date rate. Works cataloged as “attributed to”, “circle of” or similar are left out. All Reg Butler auction results →