ID 1426220 
Lot 600  | JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000 
Untitled (Solar Set)
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
wood box construction—glass, marble, wood, plastic, metal, nails, sand, printed paper collage and paint
11 ½ x 16 ¼ x 3 5/8 in. (29.2 x 41.1 x 9.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1956-1958.
Provenance
Donald Karshan, New York
Maury Cohen, Los Angeles
Donald Morris Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999
Literature
A. Cortesi, "Joseph Cornell," Artforum, vol. IV, no. 8, April 1966 (illustrated on the cover; titled Solar System Box).
J. Ashbery, "Cornell’s Sublime Junk," Newsweek, 8 December 1980, p. 110 (illustrated).
L. Roscoe Hartigan, W. Lehrman and R. Vine, Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday, New York, 2003, pp. 164-167, no. 54 (illustrated on foldout).
J. Spellos, The Photographers Series: Keith Carter, 2006 (video; illustrated).
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 2006, p. 46 (illustrated).
L. Hartigan, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, New Haven, 2007, pp. 244-245 and 370, no. 103 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Pasadena Art Museum, An Exhibition of Works by Joseph Cornell, December 1966-February 1967, pp. 53 and 70, no. 55 (illustrated).
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, November 1980-January 1981, n.p., no. XVI (illustrated).
| Artist: | Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972) | 
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| Art style: | Post War Art | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
| Artist: | Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972) | 
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| Art style: | Post War Art | 
| Auction house category: | Sculptures, Statues & Figures | 
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