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Price realised GBP 62,500

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WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)

Erato

Price realised GBP 62,500

Closed: 2 Mar 2021

Price realised GBP 62,500

Closed: 2 Mar 2021

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WILLIAM TURNBULL (1922-2012)
Erato
signed with monogram, numbered and dated '1/6 /82' (at the base)
bronze with a dark brown patina, on a wooden base
22 ½ in. (57.1 cm.) high, excluding wooden base
Conceived in 1982.

Lord McAlpine.
His sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 July 2001, lot 277, as 'Leda'.
with Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin.
Private collection, South Germany.

A.A. Davidson, The Sculpture of William Turnbull, Much Hadham, 2005, p. 157, no. 214, another cast illustrated.

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