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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 58 | $****** - ****** | Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, The Clock in the Steeple Strikes One (From "Come Home, Father" by Henry Clay Work) |
paintings
116 x 89 cm (45.67 x 35.04 in)
Acrylic on canvas
Signed “cply” and dated in the lower left. Titled and inscribed “Come Home, Father by Henry Clay Work” (both in capital letters) on the reverse
Onnasch, Berlin (acquired from the artist in 1974).
• The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, honored the artist with a first retrospective exhibition the year this work was created. • Comparable paintings from the 1960s can be found at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne . This work is registered with the William N. Copley Estate, New York. We would like to thank Mr Anthony Atlas for his kind expert advice. William N. Copley. Ballads, Galerie Iolas Gallery, Paris, March 30 - April 22, 1967, cat. no. 11 (with the inscribed gallery label on the stretcher). William N. Copley. Western Songs, Galerie Onnasch, Cologne, July 1974. William N. Copley. Post-Raphaelite Paintings, Reinhard Onnasch, Berlin, May 3 - June 11, 1983. William N. Copley, Roo-a-toot-toot Three Times She Shot Through That Hardwood Door, König Galerie, Berlin, June 2 - July 27, 2003. William N. Copley, El Sourdog Hex, Berlin, January 5 - February 28, 2009. Re-view Onnasch Collection, Hauser & Wirth, London, September 20 - December 14, 2013, p. 142 (illu.). The Ballad of William N. Copley, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, January 17 - March 7, 2020. l Sourdog Hex (ed.), Nineteen Artists (exhibition series), Berlin 2010, p. 146 (illu.). "He"s an amazing, inventive artist who needs to be ranked up there with those great outsider people who flesh out the story of modernism in the United States." Toby Kamps, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection, Houston, quoted from: Molly Glentzer, The World According to CPLY: Surrealism "made everything understandable, Houston Chronicle, Feb. 26, 2016. Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 18.54 h +/- 20 min.
Bernhard Kerber, Reinhard Onnasch (eds.), Bestände Onnasch, Berlin 1992, p. 104.
William N. Copley
Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now, The Clock in the Steeple Strikes One (From "Come Home, Father" by Henry Clay Work)
1966.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed “cply” and dated in the lower left. Titled and inscribed “Come Home, Father by Henry Clay Work” (both in capital letters) on the reverse. 116 x 89 cm (45.6 x 35 in).
• In the 1960s, Copley found his unmistakable visual language of round and curved shapes, a contoured style reminiscent of comic drawings and mostly faceless figures.
• After he returned from Paris, Copley explored everyday American myths and ballads, adding a socio-critical dimension to his often erotic and frivolous oeuvre.
