Beau Geste

1. Estate of the artist; sold through Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, to Irving Stenn, Jr., Chicago, January 2015; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 29, 2023.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York Cultural Center, CPLY: X–RATED, Mar. 22–May 19, 1974, cat. 31.
• New York, Paul Kasmin, William N. Copley: X–RATED, Nov. 6–Dec. 11, 2010, no cat. no.
• Berlin, me Collectors Room, Jan. 30 –May 15, 2011, William N. Copley and Andreas Slominski: X-Rated, no cat.
• London, Sadie Coles HQ, William N. Copley: X–Rated, June 9–Aug. 27, 2011, no cat.
• Providence, Museum of Art, Rhode Island Institute of Design, What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Sept. 19, 2014–Jan. 4, 2015, no cat. no.
• Houston, Menil Collection, as William N. Copley: The World According to CPLY, Feb.19 to July 25, 2016, cat. 405; Milan, Fondazione Prada, as William N. Copley, Oct. 20, 2016–Jan. 8, 2017 (extended to Feb. 12, 2017, Milan only).

• Anne Doran, William N. Copley X-Rated, exh. cat. (Paul Kasmin Gallery/Copley LLC, 2011), 34, 35 (color ill.), 124.
• Dan Nadel, What Nerve!: Alternative Figuration in American Art, 1960 to the Present, exh. cat. (Rhode Island School of Design/D.A.P., 2014), 178, 181 (color ill.), back cover (color ill. detail).
• Germano Celant, Gwen L. Allen, Paul B. Franklin, Alison M. Gingeras, Jonathan Griffin, and Toby Kamps, William N. Copley, exh. cat. (Menil Collection/Fondazione Prada, 2016), 193, cat. 405 (color ill.); 374.

I'm sick of the taste of champagne, from "The Spell of the Yukon"

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Untitled (Think/Flag), from Artists and Writers Protest against the War in Vietnam

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Racehorse

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Untitled (Westermann)

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S.M.S. #6 (Deluxe Edition)

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S.M.S. #5 (Deluxe Edition)

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S.M.S. #2 (Deluxe Edition)

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S.M.S. #3 (Deluxe Edition)

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