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Joseph Cornell

Hôtel de l'Etoile (Juan Gris Series)

Auction Closed

September 28, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Joseph Cornell

1903 - 1972

Hôtel de l'Etoile (Juan Gris Series)


signed (on the reverse)

painted wood box construction with metal rods, rings, nails, mirror, wood, plastic ball and paper collage

19 ½ by 12 by 4 ½ in.

49.5 by 30.5 by 11.4 cm.

Executed circa 1955.

PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above in 1985 by the present owner
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Joseph Cornell, April - May 1984, no. 28, n.p., illustrated in color
New York, PaceWildensteinMacGill, Joseph Cornell, December 1986 - January 1987, illustrated in color on the cover
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris, January - April 2018, pl. 4, no. 5, n.p., illustrated in color