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Metamorphosis 1
Details
WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)
Metamorphosis 1
signed with monogram, numbered and dated '5/9 /79' (at the base)
bronze with a green patina, on a stone base
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1979.
Metamorphosis 1
signed with monogram, numbered and dated '5/9 /79' (at the base)
bronze with a green patina, on a stone base
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) high, excluding base
Conceived in 1979.
Provenance
with Waddington Galleries, London, where purchased by the previous owner in 2012.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2018, lot 532, where purchased by the present owner.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2018, lot 532, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
A.A. Davidson, The Sculpture of William Turnbull, Much Hadham, 2005, p. 148, no. 190, another cast illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Waddington Galleries, William Turnbull: Recent Sculpture, September - October 1991, catalogue not traced.
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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