William Turnbull - The Eternal Now: Works from the Artist’s Estate
William Turnbull - The Eternal Now: Works from the Artist’s Estate
Property from the Estate of William Turnbull
WILLIAM TURNBULL | UNTITLED (HEAD, 1956)
Lot Closed
June 17, 01:01 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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.
To view shipping calculator, please click here
London, Offer Waterman, William Turnbull: New Worlds, Words, Signs, 29th September - 3rd November 2017, cat. no.27, p.101, illustrated p.8.
‘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)