Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT AND JEAN SHOENBERG
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)

The Sister Shades #2

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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
The Sister Shades #2
signed, titled and dated '"The Sister Shades" #2 1956 Joseph Cornell' (on paper labels affixed to the reverse)
paper and printed paper collage with amber glass in artist's frame
14¾ x 11¾ in. (37.5 x 29.8 cm.)
Executed in 1956.
Provenance
Mrs. Elizabeth Benton
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1979
Literature
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, 1977, pp. 36-37 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Bremen, Kunsthalle, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January 1976-July 1979, p. 91, no. 150.
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format, Objects: Duchamp to Heizer, February-March 1977.

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