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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PENNY AND ELTON YASUNA
Joseph Cornell (1903-1973)
Celestial Navigation
Details
Joseph Cornell (1903-1973)
Celestial Navigation
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on the back)
box construction--wood, metal ring, clay pipe, printed paper collage and nails
Height: 6½ in. (16.5 cm.)
Width: 113/8 in. (29 cm.)
Depth: 3 in. (7.75 cm.)
Executed circa early 1950s
Celestial Navigation
signed 'Joseph Cornell' (on the back)
box construction--wood, metal ring, clay pipe, printed paper collage and nails
Height: 6½ in. (16.5 cm.)
Width: 113/8 in. (29 cm.)
Depth: 3 in. (7.75 cm.)
Executed circa early 1950s
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Margo Leavin, Los Angeles.
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York.
Anthony Hogan, Greenwich, 1980.
Martha Parrish and James Reinish, New York.
Margo Leavin, Los Angeles.
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York.
Anthony Hogan, Greenwich, 1980.
Martha Parrish and James Reinish, New York.
Exhibited
M. Sawin and W. Jeffett, St. Petersburg, Salvador Dalí Museum; The David and Alfred Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, and Denis, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s: Selections from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection, November 1999-September 2000, pp. 39 and 109 (illustrated in color, fig. 11).
Sale room notice
Please note the catalogue illustration is reversed and the correct date for the work is circa 1960.