William Copley
Zizi Jean Mare
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October 3, 04:41 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
William N. Copley
1919 – 1996
Zizi Jean Mare
signed CPLY and dated 80 (at center); titled (on the stretcher bar)
acrylic on canvas
35 by 46 in.
88.9 by 116.8 cm.
Executed in 1980.
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Brooks Jackson Gallery lolas, William N. Copley: Whorses, 1980
“The problem that interests me most in painting – it’s a tough problem – is to find that 50-50 balance between form and humor which many great masterpieces of literature have achieved… The cornerstone of humor is sex because sex is so violently spiritual and so violently physical at the same time… You laugh at a puppy dog or at the backside of a woman, not because it’s funny, but because you love it.”
WILLIAM N. COPLEY
