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The Barber's Shop
1968 · Dossier documenting a Chicago barber's legal battle to reproduce a Picasso sculpture that had been donated to the city of Chicago by the artist on his appointment cards
Cleveland Museum of Art
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William Copley
1919
WA-00003310
PaintingSurrealismPop ArtOp Art
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
1
Works in Collection
23
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
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Authority Records (2)
Field Verification (2 fields)
1 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
- NationalityArtsy· 85%
Source Registry (2)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
- Anton-KernTier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%
About
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Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Surrealism
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
12 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (1)
Artwork sources (2)
1 published of 20 catalogued · 17 with image
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
- + 1 more source · 19 catalogued, not yet published
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 1968 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Record
Images
Relationships
5Movements3
Collections2
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
Market
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Background
Education
Yale University
Visual Arts
Phillips Academy
Visual Arts
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