Défense d’Afficher (Object) (Post No Bills)
1939
Artist, American, 1903 - 1972
Joseph Cornell
Attributed to
East Building Upper Level, Gallery 415-B
Artwork overview
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Medium
box construction (wood box, glass, velvet, cardboard, and photograph)
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Credit Line
Collection of Robert and Aimee Lehrman, Washington, D.C., in honor of Juliette Lehrman
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Dimensions
overall: 22.54 × 35.24 × 5.08 cm (8 7/8 × 13 7/8 × 2 in.)
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Accession Number
2023.124.5
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Donahue, Los Angeles; (Richard L Feigen & Co., New York); Denise and Andrew Saul, New York; private collection, New York; (Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York); purchased 26 January 1999 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC; gift 2023 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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. IV, 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. 40, repro.
2013
Joseph Cornell et les Surrealistes a New York, Musee des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Lyon FR; Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA (as Joseph Cornell and Surrealism), 2013-2014; Musee des Beaux arts catalogue, no. 105, repro.
Bibliography
1977
1977 Waldman, Dians. Joseph Cornell. New York, 1977: 34, fig. 2.
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin._ American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum_. London, 1996: 273, n. 13.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 27, repro, 64-65.
2012
Aleluia, Catarina Casca. A Poetica do Site Specific. Lisbon, PRT, 2012: 147, fig. 4.
2018
McKinley, Mary Clare. Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2018: 26-27.
2023
McBride, Virginia. "Souvenirs in SIlver: Daguerrean Constructions by Joseph Cornell." Metropolitan Museum Journal vol. 58 (2023): 67, 73.
Inscriptions
verso: Joseph Cornell, “POST NO BILLS” 1939 ; also on verso: Annie St. Stel, dancer ca. 1885t