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Property from an Important Private Collection

Joseph Cornell

Untitled (Hôtel de L'Étoile, Suzanne Miller)

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection

Joseph Cornell

1903 - 1972


Untitled (Hôtel de L'Étoile, Suzanne Miller)

ink, colored pencil, printed paper and photo collage on board

10 ⅛ by 8 ⅛ in.

25.7 by by 20.6 cm.

Executed circa 1960.

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Charles Craig, Santa Barbara

Joni Gordon, New York (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 24 September 2014, lot 65 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Phillips New York, 10 May 2016, lot 167 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

University of California Santa Barbara, College of Creative Studies, Collages by Joseph Cornell, October - November 1975, n.p., illustrated

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Diverse Directions: A Collector's Choice, Selections from the Charles Craig Collection, December 1987 - February 1988, p. 65

San Antonio, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum; Athens, Georgia Museum of Art and Long Beach Museum of Art, High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, no. 27, illustrated in color, January - August 2005

Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian American Art Museum; Salem, Peabody Essex Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, November 2006 - January 2008, no. 157, p. 277, illustrated in color