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Lot 86: - Winifred Turner , British 1903-1983 Youth plaster

Est: £4,000 GBP - £6,000 GBPSold:
Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJune 02, 2009

Item Overview

Description

plaster

Dimensions

measurements note 103cm., 40½in.

Artist or Maker

Literature

N. Penny, Alfred and Winifred Turner, ex. cat. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, p. 57
P. Skipwith, 'Some aspects of twentieth century British Sculpture', Burlington Magazine, CXXX, December 1988, illus. 86

Provenance

Jessica Turner, the artist's sister

Notes

This is the original plaster version of Youth, the model for Winifred Turner's bronze Royal Academy submission of 1934 (no. 1589) which is now on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum (A.12-1981).

Turner's powerful and progressive figure sculpture was nearly forgotten until Nicholas Penny rediscovered the bronze Youth in the V&A Museum. This encounter led to the 1988 exhibition dedicated to Winifred and her father Alfred in Oxford's Ashmolean Museum. Here the V&A's Youth 'dominated the show in terms of quality and size'. An old photograph of this plaster version of Youth was illustrated in the 1988 exhibition catalogue and would also feature in Skipwith's review of the occasion. At that time the plaster's location was unknown.

RELATED LITERATURE
Bilbey & Trusted, cat. 763, p. 471

Auction Details

19th and 20th Century European Sculpture

by
Sotheby's
June 02, 2009, 12:00 AM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK