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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 29, 2023 | Christie's | London | Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale | 175 | $****** - ****** | Tomb of the Unknown Whore | |||
Nov 11, 1988 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art, Part II | 191 | Estimates not disclosed | Tomb of the unknown whore |
paintings
113.7 x 161.6 cm (44.75 x 63.63 in)
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated "CPLY 65" (lower right)
Galerie Renata Fassbender, Munich.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 November 1988, lot 191.
Galerie Schönewald Fine Arts, Düsseldorf.
Galerie Manus Presse, Stuttgart.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007.
New York, Alexander Iolas Gallery, CPLY: Projects for Monuments to the Unknown Whore, 1966 (illustrated, unpaged).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Copley , 1966, no. 45.
New York, Onnasch Galerie, William Copley: CPLY, 1974, no. 25 (illustrated, unpaged). This exhibition later travelled to Philadelphia, Moore College of Art.
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, William Copley , 1980-1981, p 98, no. 60 (illustrated, p. 76). This exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National D'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum and Badischer Kunstverein, Germany.
Vienna, BAWAG Foundation, CPLY: Easy to Read Story Book , 2003, no. 13.
Stuttgart, Galerie Manus Presse, William N. Copley, 2006 (illustrated in color, p. 13).
Stuttgart, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, William N. Copley: Among Ourselves , 2009, p. 143 (illustrated in colour, p. 25).
Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda, Copley , 2012, p. 241 (illustrated pp. 78-79). This exhibition later travelled to Bruehl, Max Ernst Museum des LVR and Herford, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte.
WILLIAM NELSON COPLEY (1919-1996)
Tomb of the Unknown Whore
signed and dated "CPLY 65" (lower right)
acrylic on canvas
44 3/4 x 63 5/8in. (113.7 x 161.7cm.)
Painted in 1965
