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William Turnbull

估價
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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描述

  • William Turnbull
  • Untitled (Figure)
  • signed and dated 1956 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 127 by 76cm., 50 by 30in.

來源

Acquired directly from the Artist

展覽

London, Waddington Galleries, William Turnbull: Sculptures and Paintings 1946 - 1962, 13th January - 24th February 2007, cat. no.9, p.21, illustrated.

Condition

Original canvas. There is minor surface dirt and dust to the crevices, with flattening to some of the raised globules of thicker impasto. There is reticulation to one or two isolated areas of the black pigment, mostly around the edges. There are areas of isolated loss to the extreme top and bottom edges, owing to the nature of the work being unframed. There are also a few spots of tiny possible loss to some of the raised tips of impasto, only visible upon very close inspection. This excepting the work appears in very good overall condition. Ultraviolet light reveals areas of fluorescence which appear in keeping with the nature of the materials, and do not suggest retouchings. Unframed.
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拍品資料及來源

Most widely recognised for his role as a sculptor, throughout his career Turnbull maintained a strong interest in painting, typically working in one medium for a number of months before switching to the other.  As Patrick Elliott notes, Turnbull approached the mediums from two different angles: “The paintings are not of or about the sculptures and vice versa, rather the paintings deal with the language and process of painting and the sculpture with the language and process of sculpture … The paintings, brush drawings … until 1956, used the head as their motif, reducing it to its most basic form” (Patrick Elliott in William Turnbull, Sculpture and Paintings, exh. cat., 1995, Serpentine Gallery, London, p.33).