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WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)

Lot 29
22.03.2022 06:30UTC +00:00
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ID 728613
Lot 29 | WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)

Large Siren

signed with monogram, numbered, dated, and stamped with foundry mark 4⁄4 /86' (at the base)

bronze with a green brown patina, on a York stone base

63 3⁄4 in. (161.9 cm.) high, excluding base

Conceived in 1986 and cast by Morris Singer Foundry, London.







Provenance

with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner in August 1989.





Literature

Exhibition catalogue, William Turnbull: Sculptures 1946-62, 1985-87, London, Waddington Galleries, 1987, p. 63, no. 25, another cast illustrated.

Exhibition catalogue, Sculpture in the Close: An Exhibition of the Works of William Turnbull, Cambridge, Jesus College, 1990, p. 13, no. 14, another cast illustrated.

A.A. Davidson, The Sculpture of William Turnbull, Much Hadham, 2005, pp. 69, 170, no. 245, another cast illustrated.





Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, William Turnbull: Sculptures 1946-62, 1985-87, October - November 1987, no. 25, another cast exhibited.

Cambridge, Jesus College, Sculpture in the Close: An Exhibition of the Works of William Turnbull, 1990, no. 14, another cast exhibited.

West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, William Turnbull: Retrospective 1946-2003, May - October 2005, another cast exhibited.





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Artist:William Turnbull (1922 - 2012)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Modern art
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