L’Égypte de Mlle. Cléo de Mérode: cours élémentaire d’histoire naturelle (Miss Cléo de Mérode’s Egypt: Elementary Natural History Course)
1940
Artist, American, 1903 - 1972
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 Lynda Hartigan
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Dimensions
overall: 11.75 × 26.99 × 18.42 cm (4 5/8 × 10 5/8 × 7 1/4 in.)
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Accession
2023.124.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Julien Levy, New York); (Richard L. Feigen, New York); purchased 1 September 1995 by Robert Lehrman, Washington, DC; gift 2023 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1974
Ashton, Dore. _ A Joseph Cornell Album_. New York, 1974: 98-99, repro, 237.
1977
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell. New York, 1977: 19, no. 9, 116.
Levy, Julien. Memoir of an Art Gallery. New York, 1977: repro, 224-227.
1992
Simic, Charles. Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell. New York, 1992: vii, 16-17, no.2.
1997
Solomon, Deborah. Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell. New York, 1997:118-119, repro, 258.
2002
Waldman, Diane. Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams. New York, 2002: 25, 40, repro, 42, 45, 48, 150.
2003
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, Richard Vine, and Robert Lehrman. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay, Eterniday. Washington, 2003: 86, details, no.17, 19, no.17, 233, 235, 247,253.
2011
Leppanen-Guerra, Analisa. Children’s Stories and “Child-Time” in the Works of Joseph Cornell and the Transatlantic Avant-Garde. Surrey, England, 2011: 18, 205, 217-218, pl.7.
2015
Affron, Matthew, and Sylvie Ramond, eds. Joseph Cornell and Surrealism. Charlottesville, VA, 2015: 40, 2.05, 42, 178.