Throughout his life, Reg Butler’s main preoccupation and the focus of his work was the figure, which later became exclusively female. Many are doll-like or have a fetishistic quality and Butler himself saw his female nudes as being in the same tradition as the Venuses of Willendorf and Lespugue. ‘Doll’ is a perfect example of this. Butler often incorporated metal frameworks or cages which holds his female figures in space, contrasting with the soft vulnerability of the modelling, this particular ‘Doll’ is on a removable base which the viewer can chose to free the work from to view, place, or play with it like a child’s toy.