Details
JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
Untitled (Zizi Jeanmaire Lobster Ballet)
signed with the artist's initials 'J.C.' (on the reverse)
wood box construction—wood, glass, plastic lobsters, acrylic mesh, cardboard, printed paper collage, foil and glitter
8 3/4 x 15 x 3 3/4 in. (22.2 x 38.1 x 9.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1949.
Provenance
Rhett and Robert Delford Brown New York, acquired directly from the artist, 1968
Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000
Literature
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell; Master of Dreams, New York, 2002, pp. 63-64 and 152 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Salem, Peabody Essex Museumt, Joseph Cornell; Navigating the Imagination, April-August 2007, pp. 280 and 370, no. 109 (illustrated)
Lyon, Museé des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Charlottesville, Fralin Museum of Art, Joseph Cornell and the Surrealists in New York, October 2013-February 2014, p. 56, no. 31 (illustrated).
Details
JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
Untitled (Zizi Jeanmaire Lobster Ballet)
signed with the artist's initials 'J.C.' (on the reverse)
wood box construction—wood, glass, plastic lobsters, acrylic mesh, cardboard, printed paper collage, foil and glitter
8 3/4 x 15 x 3 3/4 in. (22.2 x 38.1 x 9.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1949.
Provenance
Rhett and Robert Delford Brown New York, acquired directly from the artist, 1968
Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000
Literature
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell; Master of Dreams, New York, 2002, pp. 63-64 and 152 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Salem, Peabody Essex Museumt, Joseph Cornell; Navigating the Imagination, April-August 2007, pp. 280 and 370, no. 109 (illustrated)
Lyon, Museé des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Charlottesville, Fralin Museum of Art, Joseph Cornell and the Surrealists in New York, October 2013-February 2014, p. 56, no. 31 (illustrated).
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