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Homage to the Romantic Ballet (For the sylphide Alicia Markova)
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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
Homage to the Romantic Ballet (For the sylphide Alicia Markova)
box construction-fabric, wood box, paper collage, tinted glass, feather, glass, metal, and plastic confetti
1 x 4½ x 3 in. (2.5 x 11.4 x 7.6 cm.)
Executed in 1947.
Homage to the Romantic Ballet (For the sylphide Alicia Markova)
box construction-fabric, wood box, paper collage, tinted glass, feather, glass, metal, and plastic confetti
1 x 4½ x 3 in. (2.5 x 11.4 x 7.6 cm.)
Executed in 1947.
Provenance
Ben Heller Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1977
Acquired from the above by the present owner, January 1977
Literature
S. Leonard Starr, Joseph Cornell and the Ballet, New York, 1983, p. 49, pl. 27 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, The Museum of Modern Art; The Ohara Museum of Art and Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Joseph Cornell, October 1992-May 1993, p. 77, no. 8 (illustrated in color).
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