Lot 129
129
Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949)
Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949)
Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949)
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Beyond the Canvas: Avant-Garde Sculpture and Painting from a Private Collection
Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949)

Hibiscus

Details
Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949)
Hibiscus
found painted steel
41 x 49 x 12 in. (104.1 x 124.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 2003. This work is unique.
Provenance
LA Louver, Venice
Private collection, Tokyo
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004
Exhibited
New York, Edward Thorp Gallery, Deborah Butterfield: Recent Sculpture, December 2003-January 2004.
Venice, LA Louver, Sculpture, July-August 2004.

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Lot Essay

My work is not so overtly about movement. My horses’ gestures are really quite quiet, because real horses move so much better than I could pretend to make things move. For the pieces I make, the gesture is really more within the body, it’s like an internalized gesture, which is more about the content, the state of mind or of being at a given instant. And so it’s more like a painting...the gesture and the movement is all pretty much contained within the body.
—Deborah Butterfield

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