Offer Waterman, one of London's leading galleries for 20th Century  Post-War and Contemporary Art, is delighted to announce their debut at  Art Basel Miami Beach where they will be presenting works by the  internationally acclaimed British modernist William Turnbull. Offer  Waterman has exclusively represented Turnbull's estate since 2015 and  for ABMB will present a carefully focused display from the artist's  experimental mid-career period (1958-1972) in Survey, a special sector dedicated to individual presentations of some of the greatest innovators of 20th century art.  

William  Turnbull was undoubtedly one of the most important artists of his  generation, the subject of numerous public exhibitions internationally,  including a major retrospective at the Tate in 1973 and Tate Britain's  Duveen Gallery in 2006. He was notable for his unusual virtuosity as  both sculptor and painter and the works from this mid-career period  demonstrate the artist's inventive brilliance and mastery of medium to  the full. The booth will include nine of his bold, sequential Colour  Field paintings, alongside five industrially manufactured sculptures in  steel, many of which also feature colour and were originally conceived  to be shown in unison with the paintings.  

These potent and  experimental works were in part informed by a trip to New York in 1957  during which Turnbull met Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko, but whilst  these paintings and sculptures clearly reference a common visual  language in their flat and largely monochromatic use of colour, they are  also rooted in the economy of representation found in Turnbull's  earlier works. The curves and circles in these paintings echo Turnbull's  drawings of the human head, a subject which was to fascinate him  throughout his career, whilst the waves and 'running' lines which appear  in both painting and sculpture are highly suggestive of Turnbull's  experiences as a pilot and the allure of rivers seen from the air.  

Turnbull  exhibited extensively in America throughout his career and his  enthusiasm for the US was reciprocated by his inclusion in many notable  private and public collections, including MoMA NY, Albright-Knox Art  Gallery, Buffalo and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 

In a  recent documentary Sir Nicholas Serota notes: 'It is  interesting that (Turnbull's) work was very much appreciated in America  in the early 60s. He showed at Marlborough Gerson. The works were bought  in America… and if you talk to an artist like Carl Andre he was very  much aware of what Bill was doing. I remember asking Carl 'who are the  British artists you admire and respect?' and immediately the name  Turnbull came out'. 

Offer Waterman's association with Turnbull began in 2006 after he spotted Turnbull's sculpture Lama, 1961, in David Hockney's iconic painting of the collector Betty Freeman, Beverly Hills Housewife, later buying the sculpture from Freeman. He has since staged two critically acclaimed exhibitions of Turnbull's work at his Mayfair gallery, including New Worlds, Words, Signs earlier this year. 

The paintings and sculpture for sale at ABMB will range in price from $80,000 to $240,000.