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Artist |
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Joseph Cornell |
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Pharmacy
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wood box construction, printed paper, colored sand, colored foil, sulfur, feathers, seashells, b |
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15.2 x 12 x 3.1 in. / 38.7 x 30.5 x 7.9 cm. |
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1943 - |
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Description |
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Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
Pharmacy
typed and dated 'Joseph Cornell 1943' (on a paper label affixed to the inside)
wood box construction -- printed paper, colored sand, colored foil, sulfur, feathers, seashells, butterfly, aluminum foil, fiber, wood shavings, copper wire, fruit pits, water, gold paint, cork, water, dried leaves and found objects
15ΒΌ x 12 x 3 1/8 in. (38.7 x 30.5 x 7.9 cm.)
Executed in 1943 |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
[Lot 18]
PostWar & Contemporary Evening Sale
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Provenance |
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Pierre Matisse, Paris
Mrs. Marcel Duchamp, New York
By descent to the present owner
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Exhibition |
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New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, May-June 1967, p. 32 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, March-December 1968, p. 149, no. 231 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, November 1980-January 1981, pl. VI (illustrated in color)
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Literature |
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Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp...In Resonance, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art and Houston, Menil Collection, 1999, p. 285
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