Lot 22 | William Nelson Copley | "Le Roi des Poivreaux"
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04.06.2025 - ca.18:16 o'clock
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COPLEY, WILLIAM NELSON
1919 New York - 1996 Key West
Title: "Le Roi des Poivreaux".
Date: 1957.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 114 x 161,5cm.
Notation: Titled, signed and dated verso lower right: LE ROI DES POIVREAUX Cply 57.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
We are grateful to Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for his kind scientific support.
Provenance:
- Hélène Anavi Collection, Paris
- Sotheby's, London, auction 28th March 1984, lot 68
- Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions:
- Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 2010
Literature:
- Exhib. cat. La Maison et l'Infini, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 2010, pp. 72 and 73, ill.
- Rarely published key work from William N. Copley's Paris years
- Painting at the interface between Surrealism and Pop
- A hidden homage to the Belgian surrealist René Magritte
1919 New York - 1996 Key West
Title: "Le Roi des Poivreaux".
Date: 1957.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 114 x 161,5cm.
Notation: Titled, signed and dated verso lower right: LE ROI DES POIVREAUX Cply 57.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
We are grateful to Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for his kind scientific support.
Provenance:
- Hélène Anavi Collection, Paris
- Sotheby's, London, auction 28th March 1984, lot 68
- Private collection Switzerland
Exhibitions:
- Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 2010
Literature:
- Exhib. cat. La Maison et l'Infini, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne 2010, pp. 72 and 73, ill.
- Rarely published key work from William N. Copley's Paris years
- Painting at the interface between Surrealism and Pop
- A hidden homage to the Belgian surrealist René Magritte
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