William Turnbull was born in 1922 in Scotland, in the Northern town of Dundee. When he was 15, the country slid into depression and he had to leave school to work as a laborer. In the evening he took drawing classes at Dundee University. The Second World War saw Turnbull serving as a pilot in the RAF, and when the war was over he enrolled in the Slade School of Fine Art, ostensibly to paint. He soon switched to sculpture, and then it was off to Paris, where he met Brancusi and Giacometti. Turnbull became known for works that fuse the ancient and the modern—balanced and grave. This exhibition celebrates the centenary of Turnbull’s birth with works from 1948 (the year he moved to Paris) up to his death in 2012. —Elena Clavarino