WILLIAM COPLEY | UNTITLED (THE STRUMPET MUSE - IMAGES FROM ROBERT W SERVICE SERIES)

WILLIAM COPLEY

1919-1996

UNTITLED (THE STRUMPET MUSE - IMAGES FROM ROBERT W SERVICE SERIES)

signed; inscribed Feasting a Fawning Parasite, or Glutting a Harlot's Purse, from the Song of the Wage Slave, Page 25 on the reverse

felt-tip pen and graphite on paper

Sheet: 24 by 18 in. (61 by 45.7 cm.)

Framed: 26⅝ by 20¾ in. (67.6 by 52.7 cm.)

Executed in 1994.

PROVENANCE

Fred Jahn Gallery, Munich

Private collection, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

LITERATURE

William Copley, The Strumpet Muse: Images from Robert W Service by William Copley, Cologne 1995, p. 19

EXHIBITED

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Copley, February - April 1995