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WILLIAM TURNBULL: FIGURES AND NATURAL FORMS
In 1973, William Turnbull was given a major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London. The exhibition, which included an in-depth catalogue essay by curator Richard Morphet, required that Turnbull engage in an extensive reappraisal of his past and recent work. This mid-career survey almost inevitably left Turnbull looking for a new place to begin and for much of the 1970s, while he continued to paint, he devoted more time to drawing and made small-scale sculptures in clay.
In 1970, Turnbull had made an extensive group of screenprints to illustrate the 10th century Moorish poem The Garden of Caresses and this project sparked a renewed interest in both figure drawing and printmaking. Turnbull's subsequent works on paper from the 1970s have a formal directness and pleasing sensuality, qualities later present in the new cycle of sculptures which emerged at the end of the decade.
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Etchings
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Watercolours
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Drawings
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William Turnbull, Untitled (Nude 1), 1971£ 4,000.00 inclusive of 20% VATView more details
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William Turnbull, Untitled (Nude 2), 1971£ 4,000.00 inclusive of 20% VATView more details
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William Turnbull, Untitled (Reclining Figure), 1986£ 5,500.00 inclusive of 20% VATView more details
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William Turnbull, Untitled (Abstract Figures), 1989£ 24,000.00 inclusive of 20% VATView more details
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Paintings
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More about the Artist
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William Turnbull
1922 - 2012 Offer Waterman & Co specialises in the sale of work by modernist sculptor William Turnbull. Contact us for available sculptures, paintings and prints. -
William Turnbull: New Worlds, Words, Signs
AVAILABLE Includes contributions from Patrick Elliott, Chief Curator at the National Galleries of Scotland and British sculptor, Antony Gormley, as well as previously unseen notes by the artist. Designed by Richard... -
William Turnbull goes on show at the Wadsworth Atheneum
September 12, 2019 Large Horse, 1990 was installed this week in the grounds of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. -
Outdoor Dance Performance at the Wadsworth Atheneum
August 2, 2020 Members of the Judy Dworin Performance Project (JDPP) Ensemble engage with William Turnbull's "Large Horse" (1990). -
Art Basel Miami
William Turnbull: Expanding Colour 1958-1972 7 - 10 December 2017 Between 1958 and 1972, William Turnbull worked across painting and sculpture, producing bold, sequential, Colour Field paintings, alongside industrially manufactured sculptures in steel. Informed by a trip to New York... -
William Turnbull: New Worlds, Words, Signs
29 September - 3 November 2017 Offer Waterman is delighted to announce New Worlds, Words, Signs, a major survey of the work of William Turnbull dating from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. The exhibition...
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