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                                    Collector/Connoisseur: The Max N. Berry Collections
                            
                            JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
                            Untitled (Celestial Navigation)
Details
                                        
                                            JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)
Untitled (Celestial Navigation)
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
wood box construction—wood, glass, gouache, printed paper collage, metal, sand and seashell
11 1⁄8 x 16 x 4 ¼ in. (28.6 x 41.3 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
 
                                        
                                    Untitled (Celestial Navigation)
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on a paper label affixed to the reverse)
wood box construction—wood, glass, gouache, printed paper collage, metal, sand and seashell
11 1⁄8 x 16 x 4 ¼ in. (28.6 x 41.3 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1950.
Provenance
                                        
                                            Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004
                                    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004
Literature
                                        
                                            H. Kramer, "Great Joseph Cornell was Christian Mystic," The New York Observer, 12 January 2004, n.p. (illustrated).
                                        
                                    Exhibited
                                        
                                            New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co., Joseph Cornell: The 100th Birthday, October 2003-February 2004.
                                        
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