Artwork overview
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Medium
box construction
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Credit Line
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Jacob and Charlotte Lehrman
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Dimensions
overall: 29.85 × 17.15 × 12.07 cm (11 3/4 × 6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.124.13
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Beatrice [1924-2011] and Phillip [1911-2004] Gersh, Los Angeles, CA; (Richard L. Feigen, New York); purchased 2 June 1995 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC; gift 2023 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
Joseph Cornell, Galleria Galatea, Torino, IT, 1971, unnumbered checklist, repro.
1972
Joseph Cornell, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, 1972, no. 1
Joseph Cornell Boxes and Collages, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zürich, 1972, no. 1, repro.
1980
Joseph Cornell, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1980-1981; Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1981; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, 1981; Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1981; Musée de l'Art Moderne, Paris, 1981; Chicago Art Institute, 1982; Museum of Modern Art Catalogue, no. 94, repro.
1982
Joseph Cornell and the Ballet, Leo Castelli Gallery; Richard L. Feigen and Company; James Corcoran Gallery; New York, 1982-1983, no. 11, repro.
Joseph Cornell: Art and Metaphysics, Leo Castelli Gallery; Richard L. Feigen and Company; James Corcoran Gallery; New York, 1982, no. 10, repro.
2007
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, 2007; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007-2008; no. 69, repro.
2015
Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust, Royal Academy of Art, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; 2015-2016, no. 36, repro.
Bibliography
1977
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell. New York, 1977: n.p. fig. 69, 118.
1983
Pennington, Estill Curtis (Buck). "Joseph Cornell: Dime Store Connoisseur." Archives of American Art Journal 23 no. 3 (1983): 19, fig. 13.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 67, no.69, 254.
2008
Costello, Bonnie. Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World. Ithaca, NY, 2008: 132-134, fig. 11.
2013
Mauriès, Patrick. "Le Saltimbanque et la Danseuse (Quelques Notes sur Cornell et les Néo-Romantiques)" in Sylvie Ramond ed. Joseph Cornell et les Surréalistes à New York . Exh. cat. Musee des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Lyon, FR, 2013: 302, 304.
2015
Affron, Matthew, and Sylvie Ramond, eds. Joseph Cornell and Surrealism. Charlottesville, VA, 2015: 159, 178.