William Turnbull - The Eternal Now: Works from the Artist’s Estate

William Turnbull - The Eternal Now: Works from the Artist’s Estate

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Property from the Estate of William Turnbull

WILLIAM TURNBULL | UNTITLED (HEAD, 1956)

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June 17, 01:01 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 GBP

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Property from the Estate of William Turnbull

WILLIAM TURNBULL

1922-2012

UNTITLED (HEAD, 1956)


signed and dated 56

oil on paper

unframed: 69.5 by 62cm.; 27½ by 24½in.

framed: 73.5 by 56cm.; 29 by 22in.


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‘The word ‘Head’ meant for me what I imagined the word ‘Landscape’ had meant for some painters – a format that could carry different loadings. Almost anything could be a head – and a head almost anything – given the slightest clue to the decoding … I wanted to make a head-object as autonomous as a football.’


(William Turnbull, 'Head Semantics', Uppercase 4, 1960, unpaginated)