COPLEY, WILLIAM NELSON
1919 New York - 1996 Key West

Title: Untitled.
Date: 1969.

. Technique: Acrylic on canvas.
Measurement: 91 x 74cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: cply 69.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


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

Provenance:
- Estate of the artist
- David Nolan Gallery, New York (label)
- Galerie Manus Presse, Stuttgart/Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart (acquired from the previous owner in 2006)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired from the previous owner)

Exhibitions:
- Gallery Manus Presse/Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart 2006
- Gallery Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart 2009

Literature:
- Exhib. cat. William N. Copley, Galerie Manus Presse/Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart 2006, p. 17, ill.
- Exhib. cat. William N. Copley, Among Ourselves, Stuttgart 2009, cat. no. 33, ill.


- William N. Copley's paintings combine inspirations from Surrealism and Pop Art to create a unique pictorial world
- Copley - an "artist's artist" par excellence
- Voyeurism as high art.