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This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
This picture shows the following artwork: William N. Copley. Unijambiste. 1953.
23 R William N. Copley

New York 1919 – 1996 Key West, Florida

Unijambiste. 1953

Oil on canvas. 89,2 × 116 cm (35 ⅛ × 45 ⅝ in.). On the shoe dated and signed: 26/10/53 CPLY. On the stretcher inscribed with felt-tip pen in red by another hand: UNIJAMBISTE. On the reverse, on the frame a label of Whitford Fine Art, London, (there with differing title) and a handwritten label of the exhibition Paris 1963 (see below). [3136] Framed

Provenance

Patrick Waldberg, Paris / Whitford Fine Art, London / Private Collection, Switzerland

EUR 100,000

 

- 150,000

USD 118,000

 

- 176,000

Sold for:

127,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Auction 371

Thursday, November 27th 2025, 6:00 PM

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We would like to thank Anthony Atlas, William N. Copley Estate, New York, for kindly providing additional information.

Exhibition

William N. Copley. Paris, Galerie Nina Dausset, 1953 / W. Copley. Mailand, Galleria Montenapoleone, 1954, cat. no. 11 / William N. Copley, Recent Paintings. London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1961, cat. no. 4 / Le Surréalisme, Sources, Histoires, Affinités. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1963, cat. no. 325 (there with differing date) / William N. Copley. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, 1994, cat. no. 4 / William N. Copley. Mailand, Fondazione Prada; Houston, The Menil Collection, 2016–17, cat. no. 178, ill. p. 95 (here dated 1951–53)

Literature and illustration

Exh. cat.: William N. Copley. Bern, Kunsthalle; Paris, Musée national d’art modern/Centre Georges Pompidou; Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1980–81, cat. no. 11, ill. (not exhibited) / auction: Art Contemporain, Estampes. Paris, Francis Briest, 14.12.1997, cat. no. 81, ill. / auction 930. Zeitgenössische Kunst. Cologne, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 5.12.2008, cat. no. 102, w. ill.

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