ID 1337846
Lot 650 | William Nelson Copley.Carte blanche
Estimate value
€ 20 000 – 30 000
1919 New York - 1996 Key West
Title: Carte blanche.
Date: 1955.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 54 x 65cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: CPLY 55. Titled on the stretcher: CARTE BLANCHE.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.
Provenance:
- Collection Max Ernst (ca. 1955 directly from the artist)
- Collection Dorothea Tanning (since 1976 by inheritance)
- Since then in family ownership
We are grateful to Mr Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for the kind scientific support.
- Work with unusual dynamics through shifts in perspective
- From a series of car depictions created around 1955
- From the collection of Max Ernst and offered on the auction market for the first time.
| Artist: | William Nelson Copley (1919 - 1996) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil |
| Auction house category: | Post War paintings, drawings, watercolours |
| Artist: | William Nelson Copley (1919 - 1996) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil |
| Auction house category: | Post War paintings, drawings, watercolours |
| Address of auction |
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