ID 728614
Lot 4 | WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
Queen 2
signed with monogram, numbered and dated 3⁄4 /88' (on the base)
bronze with a brown patina
84 1⁄2 in. (217 cm.) high
Conceived in 1988.
Provenance
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the present owner in July 1991.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, William Turnbull: Recent Sculpture, London, Waddington Galleries, 1991, pp. 13, 51, no. 4, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, William Turnbull: New Sculpture, Berlin, Galerie Michael Haas, 1992, n.p., no. 9, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of the Garden, Edinburgh, The Scottish Gallery, 1994, p. 38. another cast illustrated, catalogue not traced.
Exhibition catalogue, William Turnbull: Bronze Idols and Untitled Paintings, London, Serpentine Gallery, 1995, p. 76, exhibition not numbered, pl. 55, another cast illustrated on the front cover.
S. Bonn, L'Art en Angleterre 1945-1995, Paris, 1996, p. 102, another cast illustrated.
S. Lawson, The 20th Century Art Book, London, 1996, p. 466, another cast illustrated.
A. Patrizio, Contemporary Sculpture in Scotland, Sydney, 1999, pp. 130-131, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, William Turnbull: Retrospective 1946-2003, West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2005, pp. 14, 18, 22, no. 41, fig. 42, another cast illustrated.
A.A. Davidson, The Sculpture of William Turnbull, Much Hadham, 2005, pp. 62-65, 68, no. 257, fig. 31, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, William Turnbull at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Chatsworth House, 2013, pp. 41, 83, no. 42, another cast illustrated, catalogue not traced.
Exhibited
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, William Turnbull - Recent Sculptures, 1988 - 1989, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
New York, Arnold Herstand & Co, William Turnbull, 1989, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
London, Waddington Galleries, William Turnbull: Recent Sculpture, September - October 1991, no. 4, another cast exhibited.
Berlin, Galerie Michael Haas, William Turnbull: New Sculpture, October - November 1992, no. 9, another cast exhibited.
Edinburgh, The Scottish Gallery, The Art of the Garden, 1994, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
London, Serpentine Gallery, William Turnbull: Bronze Idols and Untitled Paintings, November 1995 - January 1996, exhibition not numbered, another cast exhibited.
West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, William Turnbull: Retrospective 1946-2003, May - October 2005 and open air until Spring 2006, no. 41, another cast exhibited.
Derbyshire, Chatsworth House, William Turnbull at Chatsworth, March - June 2013, no. 42, another cast exhibited, catalogue not traced.
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Artist: | William Turnbull (1922 - 2012) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
Artist: | William Turnbull (1922 - 2012) |
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Applied technique: | Metalwork |
Medium: | Bronze |
Art style: | Modern art |
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