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      • Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Dull Dull, 1974sold
        Sep. 28, 2023

        Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Dull Dull, 1974

        Est: $2,000 - $4,000

        Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Dull Dull, 1974 mixed media on paper signed Deborah Butterfield and dated (lower right); titled (lower left) 22 x 30 inches. Property from the Collection of George C. Kaiser, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

        Hindman
      • Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Rufus Welded found steel 42 x 57 x 18 inches (106.sold
        May. 23, 2023

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Rufus Welded found steel 42 x 57 x 18 inches (106.

        Est: $60,000 - $80,000

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Rufus Welded found steel 42 x 57 x 18 inches (106.7 x 144.8 x 45.7 cm) PROVENANCE: Private collection, acquired circa 2005; Hackett Mill, San Francisco, California, acquired from the above, 2012; Private collection, acquired from the above, 2012. HID01801242017

        Heritage Auctions
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Derby Horse 1985sold
        May. 18, 2023

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Derby Horse 1985

        Est: $40,000 - $60,000

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Derby Horse 1985 incised with artist's signature, dated 1985, numbered A/P I with Walla Walla foundry mark cast bronze 26 1/2 by 40 1/8 by 11 1/2 in. 67.3 by 101.9 by 29.2 cm.

        Bonhams
      • Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Untitled, 1977sold
        Sep. 28, 2022

        Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Untitled, 1977

        Est: $25,000 - $35,000

        Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Untitled, 1977 mud and straw on metal armature 24 x 33 1/2 x 7 inches. Property from the Collection of James and Edythe Cloonan, Chicago, Illinois Provenance: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago

        Hindman
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Tango, 1987sold
        Sep. 14, 2022

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Tango, 1987

        Est: $70,000 - $100,000

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Tango, 1987 welded steel 29 x 39 1/2 x 16 in. 73.7 x 100.3 x 40.6 cm. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website

        Bonhams
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Horse 2008sold
        May. 19, 2022

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Horse 2008

        Est: $80,000 - $120,000

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Horse 2008 incised with an inscription and dated © 2008 to the underside cast bronze and copper 44 by 57 by 14 in. 111.8 by 144.8 by 35.6 cm. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website

        Bonhams
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Untitled (2470), 2001sold
        Feb. 18, 2022

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Untitled (2470), 2001

        Est: $80,000 - $120,000

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Untitled (2470), 2001 cast bronze 38 x 43 x 10 in. 96.5 x 109.2 x 25.4 cm. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website

        Bonhams
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Small Horse aluminum, steel and mudsold
        Nov. 12, 2021

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Small Horse aluminum, steel and mud

        Est: $25,000 - $35,000

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) Small Horse aluminum, steel and mud

        Christie's
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) SILVER welded found steelsold
        May. 14, 2021

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) SILVER welded found steel

        Est: $50,000 - $70,000

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) SILVER welded found steel

        Christie's
      • Deborah Butterfield, Fractal, 1986sold
        Apr. 17, 2021

        Deborah Butterfield, Fractal, 1986

        Est: $80,000 - $120,000

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Fractal, 1986 steel 34 x 108 x 60 in. (86.36 x 274.32 x 152.40 cm.)

        Santa Fe Art Auction
      • Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Hibiscus found painted steel 41 x 49 x 12 insold
        Mar. 09, 2021

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Hibiscus found painted steel 41 x 49 x 12 in

        Est: $60,000 - $80,000

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Hibiscus found painted steel 41 x 49 x 12 in. (104.1 x 124.5 x 30.5 cm.)

        Christie's
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Coral Seasold
        Aug. 18, 2020

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Coral Sea

        Est: $35,000 - $45,000

        welded found steel

        Sotheby's
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Cosmosold
        Aug. 18, 2020

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Cosmo

        Est: $40,000 - $60,000

        welded found painted steel

        Sotheby's
      • Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Punch 1997sold
        Jul. 01, 2020

        Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Punch 1997

        Est: $80,000 - $120,000

        Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949) Punch 1997 incised with foundry mark on the underside bronze 35 by 40 by 10 1/2 in. 89 by 101.6 by 26.7 cm. This work was executed in 1997. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website

        Bonhams
      • Deborah Butterfield, Isabelsold
        Jun. 23, 2020

        Deborah Butterfield, Isabel

        Est: $80,000 - $120,000

        Deborah Butterfield Isabel 2002 cast bronze with patina 38 h × 44 w × 21 d in (97 × 112 × 53 cm) Provenance: Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago | Acquired from the previous in 2002 by present owner condition: Unmarked. Unmarked. Very good overall condition with rich patina. Small amount of dust found in crevices and more layered areas of the composition. Sculpture is very stable.

        Rago Arts and Auction Center
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Horsesold
        Mar. 06, 2020

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Horse

        Est: $30,000 - $50,000

        clay, wood and wire

        Sotheby's
      • Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Kukuni bronze 37 ¼ x 47 x 13 in. (94.6 x 119.4 x 33 cm.)sold
        May. 16, 2019

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Kukuni bronze 37 ¼ x 47 x 13 in. (94.6 x 119.4 x 33 cm.)

        Est: $100,000 - $150,000

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Kukuni incised with the date and foundry name '© 2010 WWFO' (on the underside) bronze 37 ¼ x 47 x 13 in. (94.6 x 119.4 x 33 cm.) Executed in 2010. This work is unique.

        Christie's
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Dazzelsold
        Mar. 01, 2019

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Dazzel

        Est: $70,000 - $90,000

        bronze

        Sotheby's
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) PALOMINO, 1981 PAINTED METAL, WOOD, WIRE, AND NAILsold
        Nov. 29, 2018

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD (B. 1949) PALOMINO, 1981 PAINTED METAL, WOOD, WIRE, AND NAIL

        Est: $100,000 - $150,000

        Deborah Butterfield (b. 1949) Palomino, 1981 Painted metal, wood, wire, and nails 75 x 48 x 99 inches (190.5 x 121.9 x 251.5 cm) PROVENANCE: Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California; Private collection, California, 1981; Sotheby's New York, November 15, 2007, lot 542; Acquired from the present owner from the above. EXHIBITED: ARCO Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, California, and elsewhere, "Deborah Butterfield: Sculpture," November 1981-February 1983; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, "Deborah Butterfield," July-September 1996. LITERATURE: ARCO Center for Visual Art, "Deborah Butterfield: Sculpture," exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1981, pp. 8-9, illustrated; Artspace Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Fall 1982, illustrated as the cover; San Diego Museum of Art, "Deborah Butterfield," San Diego, California,1996, pp. 30-31, illustrated as the cover; R. Gordon, Deborah Butterfield, New York, 2003, p. 39, illustrated. HID04901242017

        Heritage Auctions
      • DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Madrone (Cody)sold
        Oct. 04, 2018

        DEBORAH BUTTERFIELD | Madrone (Cody)

        Est: $220,000 - $280,000

        cast bronze

        Sotheby's
      • Deborah Butterfieldsold
        Sep. 15, 2018

        Deborah Butterfield

        Est: -

        Kelly Canyon, 2016 Cast Bronze, unique work 86.5 x 98.5 x 27 in (219.7 x 250.2 x 68.6 cm) Deborah Butterfield B. 1949, California, USA “My friend Greta Ehrlich wrote a book Facing the Wave and the title ‘Three Sorrows’ came from a phrase of hers: ‘Three sorrows: earthquake, tsunami, meltdown’ – which I think sums up our environmental disasters, and why I made this piece. A lot of the collected debris drifted to the shores of Alaska specifically from the tsunami in Japan five years ago. In this work, I thought it was very important to have the veracity of the actual objects that went through that experience. The horse, to me, has always been female, and in the body of this particular piece with the blue fishing barrel torn into pieces, I see it as the ocean and continents and a literal metaphor for what we’ve done to the Earth. That’s what this horse is. It’s telling us what we have done to the environment, and to species who don’t have actual voice boxes to tell us. But they’re telling us, we’re just not listening.” - Deborah Butterfield Internationally renowned for her representations of horses in sculpture, Deborah Butterfield portrays the energy and emotion of nature through an emphasis on formal line and structure. Since the 1970s, Butterfield’s sole motif has been the horse, and through her expansive oeuvre of stylized small and large-scale works, she has encapsulated the symbolic freedom and strength of the animal. Butterfield imbues each sculpture with an individual sense of character; the works can be seen as anthropomorphic, with a distinctive spirit that emerges from each unique composition. As the artist once described of her subject, “I first used the horse as a metaphorical substitute for myself – it was a way of doing a self-portrait, one step away from the specificity of Deborah Butterfield”. Butterfield began her practice using natural materials – clay, mud, wood — and subsequently, started working with found materials, employing barbed wire, metal and wood together. Her recent sculptures incorporate plastic detritus collected from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. In the pairing of natural wood with manmade refuse, the artist foregrounds the delicate balance of our environment, and the increasingly common phenomena of natural disasters in our current age. In her process, Butterfield harvests found wood from nature, builds the wood elements into a singular composition, casts the work into bronze, and gives each work a special patina that creates a lifelike wood quality. Kelly Canyon was originally composed from wood sourced close to her home and studio in Bozeman, Montana; the surrounding areas nearby have been devastated by fires in recent years due to climate change. The development of Butterfield’s sculptural practice also captures the mystique of the American West. Representing the freedom of manifest destiny and the possibility of the American Dream, Western motifs such as the horse mark the evolution of temporal and spatial opportunity. This sense of sovereignty is evident in the balance between formalism and malleability in Kelly Canyon and highlights the marriage of animalistic and human experience. Courtesy of Deborah Butterfield and L.A. Louver Venice, California Fair Market Value: $450,000

        Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
      • Large Deborah Kay Butterfield Sculpturesold
        Jun. 02, 2018

        Large Deborah Kay Butterfield Sculpture

        Est: $25,000 - $35,000

        Provenance: The Norman S. Jaffe Art Trust, Coral Gables, Florida.

        Palm Beach Modern Auctions
      • Deborah Butterfield, Untitled (Horse)sold
        Mar. 15, 2018

        Deborah Butterfield, Untitled (Horse)

        Est: $20,000 - $30,000

        Deborah Butterfield Untitled (Horse) c. 1980 mud and straw over woven grass 29 h x 34 w x 11.5 d in (74 x 86 x 29 cm) Provenance: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago | Private Collection, Aspen Condition of the item is not included in this description. Condition reports are available from Wright upon request. Wright strongly recommends that you review a condition report for each item on which you plan to bid. Email [email protected] to request a condition report.

        Wright
      • Deborah Butterfield, Untitled (Horse)sold
        Mar. 15, 2018

        Deborah Butterfield, Untitled (Horse)

        Est: $20,000 - $30,000

        Deborah Butterfield Untitled (Horse) c. 1980 aluminum, steel wire 22 h x 31 w x 8 d in (56 x 79 x 20 cm) Provenance: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago | Private Collection, Aspen Condition of the item is not included in this description. Condition reports are available from Wright upon request. Wright strongly recommends that you review a condition report for each item on which you plan to bid. Email [email protected] to request a condition report.

        Wright
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