I'm sick of the taste of champagne, from "The Spell of the Yukon"
1994 · Black felt-tip pen over charcoal on white wove paper
61 × 45.7 cm (24 1/16 × 18 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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William N. Copley
Artist
WA-00009291
PaintingSurrealismPop ArtOp Art
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6
Works in Collection
8
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2
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70%
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- BiographyWikipedia + Ai Generated· 88%✓
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- Sadie-ColesTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
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Surrealism
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6 published of 6 catalogued · 6 with image
- Art Institute Chicago5 published5 img
- Tate1 published1 img
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- 1956 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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