The William N. Copley Collection
Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 1979
7¾ x 9¾ INCHES (19 x 24¾ CM)
$40 PURCHASE
William Copley, The Strumpet Muse
“And there was my friend the murderer, and there was my friend the thief”
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig, Koln, DE, 1995
8 x 9.5 inches (20 x 24 cm)
$60 PURCHASE
William Colpley, CPLY
“La Doppia funzione del tempo nell’arte contemporanea e stresso un’eslusione ed una continuita”
Galleria Il Fauno, Tonino, IT, 1973
8 X 8 inches (21 x 21 cm)
$100 Purchase
William Copley, Trust Lust Heed Greed
“Death of a righteous man”
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, 1991
6 x 6 inches (15 x 15 cm)
$75 Purchase
William Copley, X-Rated
“for the rest of my life i called marcel duchamp my best friend”
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, 2010
11 x 10½ inches (28 x 26¾ cm)
$70 Purchase
William Copley, Lens Fine Art
“a retrospective: 40’s, 50’s, 60’s 70’s, 80’s”
Antwerp, Belgium, 1981
6½ x 9½ inches (16½ x 24¼ cm)
SOLD
William Copley, Kunsthalle Berne
“I think poets are nicer than other people, but it takes longer to find this out”
Kunsthalle Berne, Berne, 1980
8¼ x 10¾ inches (21 x 27¼ cm)
SOLD
William Copley, Bill Copley: Galleria Schwarz
“the first time i saw a painting by william neslon copley i laughed with all my heart”
Galleria Schwarz, Milan, 1962
6¼ x 9 inches (16¾ x 22¾ cm)
(pages loose from binding)
$95 PURCHASE
William Copley, Nouns
“copley’s dry brushwork and his flat application of paint convey anything but a replication of reality”
Galerie Fred Jahn, München, DE, 1999
7 x 9½ inches (17¾ x 24¼ cm)
$70 PURCHASE
William Copley, True Confessions
“copley promises absolution”
Verlag Gerd Hatje, Ostfildern, DE, 1997
8½ x 11 inches (21½ x 28 cm)
$70 Purchase
William Copley, Reflections on a Past Life
“portrait of the artist as a young dealer”
8 x 5½ inches (20¼ x 14 cm)
$50 Purchase
William Copley, Ballads
“says my nellie dressed in blue, your trifling days are through now i know that you’ll be true, god damn your eyes”
Alexandre Iolas, New York, 1966
7 x 8½ inches (17¾ x 21½ cm)
$750 Purchase
William Copley, W N Copley Paintings Hanover Gallery
“i think a great deal about sex”
7½ x 9½ inches (19 x 24¼ cm)
Hanover Gallery, London, 1963
SOLD
William Copley, X-Rated
“when our generation is dead, there will be no pornography”
The New York Cultural Center in Association with Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey, 1974
8 x 10 inches (20¼ x 25½ cm)
$120 Purchase
