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Monsieur Claude
Details
Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
Monsieur Claude
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
tinted glass and printed paper collage
10 x 10 7/8 in. (25.4 x 27.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1933.
Monsieur Claude
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
tinted glass and printed paper collage
10 x 10 7/8 in. (25.4 x 27.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1933.
Provenance
Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owners, April 1978
Acquired from the above by the present owners, April 1978
Literature
D. Ades and T. Neff, In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism, Chicago and New York, 1985, p. 127 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1984-January 1985.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum and Salem, Peabody Essex Museum Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, November 2006-August 2007, cat. 14, pl. 72, pg. 196 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum and Salem, Peabody Essex Museum Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, November 2006-August 2007, cat. 14, pl. 72, pg. 196 (illustrated in color).
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