Object (Soap Bubble Set)
1941
Artist, American, 1903 - 1972
Joseph Cornell
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
box construction (black eglomise border with black velvet)
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Credit Line
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Charlotte Lehrman
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Dimensions
overall: 46.36 × 31.43 × 9.53 cm (18 1/4 × 12 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.124.15
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist; gift to James Ogle [1918-2005];[1] (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York); purchased 21 May 1996 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC.
[1] Ogle was a commercial photographer who collaborated with Cornell in 1938 and 1939, photographing tabletop scenarios arranged by the artist. See Lynda Rosco Hartigan, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, Salem 2007: 76, 78-79, 97.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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. 61, repro.
2015
Joseph Cornell: Wanderlust, Royal Academy of Art, London; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; 2015-2016, no. 33, repro.
Bibliography
2002
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams. New York, 2002, 26-27, repro.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 31, 73-75, fig.13.
2007
Mavor, Carol. Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott. Durham, NC, 2007: 42-43, repro, 167, details.
2008
Hoving, Kirsten. Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars. Princeton, 2008: 50-51, fig. 2.15.