Live Auction 19784Modern British Art Day Sale
WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)
Lot 131

WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)

Mask

Closed2 March 2021

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GBP 62,500

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WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)
Mask
signed with monogram, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark '6/6 '88' (on the base)
bronze with a green and brown patina
26 ½ in. (67.3 cm.) high
Conceived in 1988 and cast by the Morris Singer Foundry.

with Waddington Galleries, London.
with Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin.
Private collection, South Germany.

Specialist note

'The mask is a marvellous example of the attempt to fix that which is maybe most continuously fleeting and mobile - the expression on a face.' (W. Turnbull, 1950, quoted in T. Crosby (ed.), Uppercase 4, London, 1960, n.p.)