Live Auction 17282Modern British Art Day Sale
William Turnbull (1922-2012)
Lot 122

William Turnbull (1922-2012)

Metamorphic Venus 3

Closed22 January 2020

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GBP 118,750

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William Turnbull (1922-2012)
Metamorphic Venus 3
signed with monogram, numbered and dated '2/6/82' (at the base)
bronze with a green patina, on a York stone base
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high, excluding York stone base
Conceived in 1982 and cast in an edition of 6 plus an artist's cast.

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

Specialist note


'I have always been interested in the idea of metamorphosis ... Ambiguity can give the image a wide frame of reference, which creates cross-reference between something that looks like an object and looks like an image. For me in making sculpture there is always that tension.'
William Turnbull