Title
Untitled (walking figures) 1952
1952
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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London
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England
- Date
- 1952
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 61.0 x 50.8 cm
- Signature & date
Signed and dated u.c. verso, black marker "Turnbull/ T [circular monogram] 1952/ 1952".
- Credit
- Gift of the Estate of William Turnbull 2023
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 209.2023
- Copyright
- © Estate of William Turnbull/DACS. Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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William Turnbull
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About
Turnbull’s paintings from the early 1950s often featured figures moving. He has said that he was interested in the implication of movement, and this he achieved through his use of gestural line.
While living in Paris in the late 1940s, Turnbull became friends with Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. 'Untitled (walking figures)' relates to Giacometti’s work, and possible Marcel Duchamp's famous 'Nude Descending a Staircase' 1912 while also speaking to the artist’s involvement with the Independent Group in London where he exhibited alongside collection artists Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton.
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Where the work was made
London
