Mask

Details

WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)
Mask
signed with monogram, numbered, dated and stamped with foundry mark '1⁄6 88' (on the edge of the base)
bronze with a dark brown and green patina
26 ¼ in. (66.7 cm.) high
Conceived in 1988 and cast by Morris Singer Foundry, London.

Provenance

with Arnold Herstand & Company, New York, where purchased by the present owner in February 1990.

Literature

Exhibition catalogue, The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture, Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy, 1990, p. 17, no. 33, another cast illustrated.
Exhibition catalogue, William Turnbull: Recent Sculpture, London, Waddington Galleries, 1991, pp. 16-17, 52, no. 6, another cast illustrated.
A.A. Davidson, The Sculpture of William Turnbull, Much Hadham, 2005, p. 175, no. 260, another cast illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Arnold Herstand & Co., William Turnbull, October - November 1989, another cast exhibited.
Edinburgh, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, June - July 1990, no. 33, another cast exhibited.
London, Waddington Galleries, William Turnbull: Recent Sculpture, September - October 1991, no. 6, another cast exhibited.

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Lot Essay

‘I made a series of masks which are concerned with surface as a skin; the division of inside and outside space in volume sculpture. My linear sculpture had been concerned with motion, and later, I realised that a mask is an arrest of movement’.

(William Turnbull, ‘Statement’, Das Kunstwerk, ‘Neue Abstraktion/New Abstraction’, 10-12, April - June 1965, p. 126).

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