Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 126000465
126000465
William N. Copley
Gang Bust, 1994.
Acrylic on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 81,900 - 105,300
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
126000465
William N. Copley
Gang Bust, 1994.
Acrylic on canvas
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000
$ 81,900 - 105,300
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
William N. Copley
1919 - 1996
Gang Bust. 1994.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed "cply" and dated in the lower right. 81.5 x 101.7 cm (32 x 40 in).
•Distinctive style: a fusion of American pop art, European surrealism, and a narrative, cartoon-like aesthetic.
•Humor, provocation, and storytelling: Copley's narrative imagery plays with taboos and social conventions.
• Since the 1960s, his paintings have featured motifs from the “Wild West”, one of the core genres of American cinema.
• Other paintings from the 1990s are part of, among others, the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden.
• Most recently, his paintings were part of major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art / ICA, Miami (2018/2019) and in the Philara Collection in Düsseldorf (2023/2024).
PROVENANCE: Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Joan and Roger Sonnabend Collection, Boston, Massachusetts.
Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Private collection, New York.
EXHIBITION: Gang Bust. William Copley & Big Fat Black Cock, Inc., April 11–June 22, 2013 (with illustrations).
William Copley. Paintings and Mirrors, Michael Fuchs Gallery, Berlin, June 12–July 26, 2014.
1919 - 1996
Gang Bust. 1994.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed "cply" and dated in the lower right. 81.5 x 101.7 cm (32 x 40 in).
•Distinctive style: a fusion of American pop art, European surrealism, and a narrative, cartoon-like aesthetic.
•Humor, provocation, and storytelling: Copley's narrative imagery plays with taboos and social conventions.
• Since the 1960s, his paintings have featured motifs from the “Wild West”, one of the core genres of American cinema.
• Other paintings from the 1990s are part of, among others, the collections of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden.
• Most recently, his paintings were part of major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art / ICA, Miami (2018/2019) and in the Philara Collection in Düsseldorf (2023/2024).
PROVENANCE: Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Joan and Roger Sonnabend Collection, Boston, Massachusetts.
Obelisk Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Private collection, New York.
EXHIBITION: Gang Bust. William Copley & Big Fat Black Cock, Inc., April 11–June 22, 2013 (with illustrations).
William Copley. Paintings and Mirrors, Michael Fuchs Gallery, Berlin, June 12–July 26, 2014.
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