COPLEY, WILLIAM NELSON
1919 New York - 1996 Key West

Title: Carte blanche.
Date: 1955.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 54 x 65cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: CPLY 55. Titled on the stretcher: CARTE BLANCHE.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Provenance:
- Collection Max Ernst (ca. 1955 directly from the artist)
- Collection Dorothea Tanning (since 1976 by inheritance)
- Since then in family ownership

We are grateful to Mr Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for the kind scientific support.

- Work with unusual dynamics through shifts in perspective
- From a series of car depictions created around 1955
- From the collection of Max Ernst and offered on the auction market for the first time.