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Untitled (Music Box)
Details
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
Untitled (Music Box)
box construction--cardboard, printed paper collage, postage stamps, maps, bells and rattles
3 5/8 x 7½ x 3½ in. (9.2 x 19 x 8.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1947.
Untitled (Music Box)
box construction--cardboard, printed paper collage, postage stamps, maps, bells and rattles
3 5/8 x 7½ x 3½ in. (9.2 x 19 x 8.8 cm.)
Executed circa 1947.
Provenance
Allan Stone Galleries, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, April 1966
Acquired from the above by the present owner, April 1966
Literature
D. Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, New York, 1974, p. 23 (illustrated).
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, 1977, pl. 74 (illustrated).
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, 1977, pl. 74 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cornell in Chicago, November 1973-January 1974.
New York, Museum of Modern Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Cornell, January-March 1982 (this work exhibited in Chicago only). Art Institute of Chicago, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, June 1983-October 1989.
New York, Museum of Modern Art and Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Cornell, January-March 1982 (this work exhibited in Chicago only). Art Institute of Chicago, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, June 1983-October 1989.
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