JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)

Lot 229
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Lot 229 | JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
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JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)

The View at Ostend

signed and titled 'The View at Ostend. Joseph Cornell' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)

wood box construction—glass, marble, wood, plastic, metal, nails, printed paper collage and paint

8 ¾ x 12 7⁄8 x 5 1⁄8 in. (22.3 x 32.5 x 12.9 cm.)

Executed circa 1957.





Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Swenson, Houston, acquired directly from the artist

Private collection, New York

Donald Morris Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990



Exhibited

Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, The Disquieting Muse: Surrealism, January-February 1958, n.p.

Dallas Museum for Contemporary Art, The Art that Broke the Looking Glass, November-December 1961, p. 88, no. 131.

Houston, University of St. Thomas, Fine Arts Gallery, Out of this World: An Exhibition of Fantastic Landscapes from the Renaissance to the Present, March-April 1964, n.p., no. 45 (illustrated).

Houston, Rice Museum, Joseph Cornell, September-December 1977, n.p., no. 59.

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Wood in Art, June-September 1979, p. 75, no. 193 (illustrated).
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