COPLEY, WILLIAM NELSON
1919 New York - 1996 Key West
Title: Horse Fair.
Date: 1955.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 97,5 x 145cm.
Notation: Signed and dated within the depiction upper right: CPLY 55.
We are grateful to Mr Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for his kind, scientific support.
Provenance:
- Estate of Max Ernst (since 1976, directly from the artist)
- Dorothea Tanning Collection
- Since then in family possession
- Early work from his important Paris period
- From the estate of the artist's friend Max Ernst
- Offered on the international auction market for the first time
- Characteristic of Copley's provocative and ironic approach to social values.
