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La Favorite
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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
La Favorite
wood box construction--wood, printed paper collage, paint, glass, tinted glass, metal, clay figure and velvet-covered paper box
10 x 8 5/8 x 4½ in. (25.4 x 21.9 x 11.4 cm.)
Executed in 1948.
La Favorite
wood box construction--wood, printed paper collage, paint, glass, tinted glass, metal, clay figure and velvet-covered paper box
10 x 8 5/8 x 4½ in. (25.4 x 21.9 x 11.4 cm.)
Executed in 1948.
Provenance
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1962
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1962
Literature
J. Ashbery, "The Cube Root of Dreams," ARTNews, July-August 1967, p. 56 (illustrated).
D. Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, New York, 1974, pp. 174 and 238 (illustrated).
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, 1977, pp. 49 and 116, no. 19 (illustrated in color).
A.M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the Imagination: Fantasy in Art and Literature from Blake to Dali, New York, 1981, p. 347, no. 325 (illustrated).
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams, New York, 2002, pp. 36-37 (illustrated in color).
D. Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, New York, 1974, pp. 174 and 238 (illustrated).
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, 1977, pp. 49 and 116, no. 19 (illustrated in color).
A.M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the Imagination: Fantasy in Art and Literature from Blake to Dali, New York, 1981, p. 347, no. 325 (illustrated).
D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams, New York, 2002, pp. 36-37 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts and San Francisco Museum of Art, The Art of Assemblage, October 1961-April 1962, p. 156, no. 49.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, May-June 1967, p. 22.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Cornell in Chicago, November 1973-January 1974.
New York, Museum of Modern Art; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Florence, Palazzo Pitti; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris and Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Cornell, November 1980-March 1982. Exhibited in Chicago only, no. S-9.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art: Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources, November 1982-February 1983, p. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, June 1983-October 1989, no. 2 (on loan).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, May-June 1967, p. 22.
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Cornell in Chicago, November 1973-January 1974.
New York, Museum of Modern Art; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Florence, Palazzo Pitti; Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris and Art Institute of Chicago, Joseph Cornell, November 1980-March 1982. Exhibited in Chicago only, no. S-9.
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art: Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Cornell: An Exploration of Sources, November 1982-February 1983, p. 40.
Art Institute of Chicago, The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, June 1983-October 1989, no. 2 (on loan).
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