COPLEY, WILLIAM NELSON
1919 New York - 1996 Key West
Title: Bird Shot.
Date: Ca. 1958.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 87.5 x 129cm.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
We are grateful to Mr Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for the kind scientific support.
Provenance:
- Estate Max Ernst (since 1976,directly from the artist)
- Collection Dorothea Tanning
- Since then in family ownership
- Former estate of Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning
- Offered on the auction market for the first time
- Exemplary for Copley's contribution to late Surrealism
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William N. Copley 
