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JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)

Lot 608
20.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508266
Lot 608 | JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
Distance to the Moon
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse); titled 'Distance to the Moon' (on a printed paper label affixed to the reverse)
wood box construction—wood, glass, metal, paint, cork, printed paper collage and yellow sand
9 5/8 x 14 7/8 x 3 ¾ in. (24.1 x 37.8 x 9.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1961.




Provenance

Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich
Schulhof Collection, New York, 1972
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 15 November 2012, lot 208
Acquired at the above sale by the late owners



Literature

P. Rylans, ed., Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, New York, 2011, p. 10 (illustrated in situ).



Exhibited

Turin, Galleria Galatea, Joseph Cornell, October-November 1971, pp. 1 and 13 (illustrated).
Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Joseph Cornell, Boxes and Collages, January-February 1972, n.p., no. 12.
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Joseph Cornell, November 1972-January 1973, n.p., no. 17 (illustrated).
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