box construction--signed Joseph Cornell on a label affixed to the reverse--painted wood and glass
19 x 13 x 4½in. (48.3 x 33 x 11.5cm.)
Executed circa 1952
Provenance
Mrs. J. A. Benton, West Hampton
Xavier Fourcade Inc., New York
Exhibited
New York, Xavier Forcade Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format Objects: Duchamp to Heizer, Feb.-March 1977
London, Hayward Gallery, Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Jan.-March 1978, no. 17.10
New York, Xavier Forcade Inc., Small Scale: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, Jan.-Feb. 1980
Lot Essay
To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being prepared by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan.