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William Turnbull 1922 – 2012)Untitled (Calligraphic Head), 1956 
Executed in 1956.Signed and dated on the reverseOil on canvas23 7/8 x 20 in. (60.6 x 50.8 cm)Framed: 25 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (64.8 x 60.3 cm)
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For more information, please email auction@norton.orgProvenance Courtesy of Turnbull Studio, Offer Waterman, and Waqas WajahatExhibited Bakewell, Chatsworth House, William Turnbull at Chatsworth, 10 March - 30 June 2013Catalogue note BIOGRAPHY AND SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 1922 Born Dundee, Scotland, 11 January 1939–41 Worked in the illustration department of a national periodical company, Dundee 1946–48 Studied at Slade School of Fine Art, London 1948–50 Lived and worked in Paris 1950 Took up permanent residence in London First marriage to the musician Katharina Wolpe Kenneth King Eduardo Paolozzi William Turnbull Hanover Gallery, London; Aspects of British Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1952 Visiting Artist, taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London until 1961 Solo exhibition at Hanover Gallery; New Aspects of British Sculpture, British Pavilion, XXVI Biennale, Venice; Young Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1956 Contemporary Sculpture, Hanover Gallery, London; This is Tomorrow, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Yngre Brittiska Skulptorer, Gothenburg Museum touring exhibition 1957 First visit to USA Solo exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Ten British Sculptors Exhibition, Bienal São Paulo touring exhibition 1958 Contemporary British Sculpture, Arts Council of Great Britain, London touring exhibition; New Trends in British Art, New York-Rome Art Foundation touring exhibition 1959 European Art Today: 35 Painters and Sculptors, Minneapolis Institute of Arts touring exhibition 1960 Married sculptor and printmaker, Kim Lim First solo exhibition at Molton Street Gallery, London, further solo show in 1961 The Mysterious Sign, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1961 2nd International Exhibition of Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris; Neue Malerei in England, Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany; Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pennsylvania 1962 Son Alex born First travels in Japan, Cambodia and Malaysia Hirshhorn Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, touring exhibition 1963 Son Johnny born Solo exhibition, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York 1964 Taught sculpture at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, until 1972 Guggenheim International, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, Tate Gallery, London 1965 Solo exhibition, Benington College, Vermont; Solo exhibition, Galerie Müller, Stuttgart British Sculpture in the Sixties, Tate Gallery, London; Signale, Kunsthalle, Basel; Drawings from the Betty Parsons Collection, New York; Sculpture from the Albert A. List Family Collection, New School Art Center, New York 1966 Solo exhibition, Pavilion Gallery, Balboa, California New Shapes and Forms of Colour, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1967 First solo exhibition at Waddington Galleries, London, further solo shows in 1969, 1970, 1976, 1978, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1991, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010 Solo exhibition, IX Bienal, São Paulo, touring to South America Guggenheim International, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 1968 Solo exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany; Sculpture in the City, Arts Council Gallery, London, touring exhibition 1972 Commissioned by the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation to create a public sculpture for the City Sculpture Project 1973 Major retrospective exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, organised by Richard Morphet 1974 Solo exhibition organised by Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh; British Painting, Hayward Gallery, London 1976 The Human Clay, Hayward Gallery, London 1977 British Painting:1952-77, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1978 The Mechanised Image, Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition; John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2nd prize) 1979 Tate 79 (inaugural exhibition for the new extension), Tate Gallery, London 1981 British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century: Part 2: Symbol and Imagination 1951-1980, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1984 Solo exhibition at the National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore, with Kim Lim 1986 Forty Years of Modern Art 1945–1985, Tate Gallery, London; British Sculpture 1950-1965, New Art Centre, London 1987 British Art in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement, Royal Academy of Arts, London, touring to Staatsgalerie Stuttgart 1989 Scottish Art Since 1900, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh touring exhibition 1990 The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, touring exhibition 1992 New Realities, Art in Western Europe 1945-68, Tate Gallery, Liverpool 1993 The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London 1995 Solo exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London, selected by David Sylvester 1997 From Blast to Pop: Aspects of Modern British Art, 1915-1965, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago 2000 Welded Sculpture of the Twentieth Century, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York 2002 Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties, Barbican Art Gallery, London 2004 Large Horse, 1990, installed at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London, touring exhibition 2005 William Turnbull Retrospective 1946-2003, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, May 2006 Survey exhibition of sculpture in the Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain, London 2011 Beyond Time: William Turnbull a film by Alex Turnbull and Pete Stern, narrated by Jude Law, premieres at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2012 Westminster Council City of Sculpture Festival, Park Lane, London November, dies in London aged 90 2013 Solo exhibition at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire 2015 Offer Waterman represents the Estate of William Turnbull William Turnbull: Selected Works from the Artist’s Estate, Offer Waterman London 2017 William Turnbull New Worlds, Words, Signs, Offer Waterman, London 2019 Long-term loan to Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA of Large Horse, 1990 plus a selection of works on paper. From September 2019 2022 William Turnbull Centenary Retrospective at 9 Cork Street, exhibition organised by Offer Waterman, London