
Not on display
- Artist
- William Turnbull 1922–2012
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- Object: 230 × 205 × 70 mm, 2.4 kg
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Transferred from the Victoria & Albert Museum 1983
- Reference
- T03773
Display caption
In the 1950s Turnbull developed an art that almost mimicked an imagined ancient civilization. The human head became a recurring subject. This is one of the first of a series of masks, a common theme in several non-western traditions. Such works were produced by pushing various objects into a clay original from which a cast was then taken.
Gallery label, September 2016
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Catalogue entry
T03773 Mask I 1953
Bronze 9 1/8 × 8 1/8 × 2 3/4 (230 × 205 × 70)
Not inscribed
Transferred from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1983
Prov: Purchased by the Department of Circulation, Victoria and Albert Museum, Sotheby's, 15 April 1964, 149, as ‘Mask II, 1955’ (Circ. 194–1964)
Exh: William Turnbull, Tate Gallery, August–October 1973 (8, repr.)
The artist has confirmed the correct title and date of this sculpture (letter of 4 December 1984). There is one other cast, which belongs to the artist.
Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1986
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