Joseph Cornell

Via Parmigianino (for Allegra)

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Auction Closed

October 13, 03:19 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important European Collection

Joseph Cornell

1903 - 1972

Via Parmigianino (for Allegra)

signed, titled, dated Summer 1956 and dedicated for Allegra (on four labels affixed to the reverse)

box construction - wood, glass, oil and printed paper collage

31.4 by 21.1 by 8.5 cm. 12⅜ by 8¾ by 3⅜ in.

Executed in 1956.

Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, Charlottesville
Pace Gallery, New York
Jay Chiat, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 2003, lot 301 (consigned by the above)
Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore
Brook Alexander Editions, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Joseph Cornell, April - May 1984, no. 58, p. 4, illustrated in colour
New York, Pace Gallery, Joseph Cornell: Dovecotes, Hotels and Other White Spaces, October - November 1989, p. 21, illustrated in colour