Lot 605 R

In this painting, William N. Copley demonstrates his charming sense of humour, with which, in this case, he literally takes the equestrian world for a ride. The stable has been extravagantly decorated, in a practical and modern manner, according to the Zeitgeist of the beginning of the 1980s. Both horses stand good-humouredly on patterned floor in front of a coloured wall. Even the manure shovels are neatly stowed away. Copley subjects his otherwise typical graphic shorthand to a concrete colour pattern with architectural room structures, grid patterns and constructions, which he reduces to a minimum in the style of Sol LeWitt and Ellsworth Kelly. Not even the coats of the horses are spared; the artist colours them with an irregular dot pattern.