Modern British & Irish Art

Modern British & Irish Art

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Auction Closed

November 23, 03:04 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

William Turnbull

1922 - 2012

Paddle Venus 5


signed with monogram, dated 85 and numbered 2/6 (on the reverse)

bronze on Portland stone base

height (including base): 80.5cm.; 31½in.

width (including base): 13.5cm; 5¼in.

Conceived in 1985, the present work is number 2 from the edition of 6.


We are grateful to the Estate of William Turnbull for their kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.

Waddington Galleries, London
Sale, Bonhams London, 14 November 2012, lot 72, where acquired by the present owner

Amanda A. Davidson, The Sculpture of William Turnbull, The Henry Moore Foundation in association with Lund Humphries, Hertfordshire, 2005, no. 235, illustrated p. 167 (another cast)

London, Waddington Galleries, William Turnbull: Sculptures, 1946-1962, 1985-1987, 1987, no. 16 (another cast)