Hotel Box
Joseph Cornell
Cornell often made series of boxed assemblages that reflected his various interests. He collected items related to hotels in Europe which he had never visited, creating imagined memories for himself and the viewer.
Aside from the Hotel series, famous themes include the Soap Bubble Sets, the Medici Slot Machine series, the Pink Palace series, the Observatory series, and the Space Object Boxes, amongst others. Also captivated with birds, Cornell created an Aviary series of boxes, in which colorful images of various birds were mounted on wood, cut out, & set against harsh white backgrounds, and to which the present work refers.
Hotel Box
Joseph Cornell
- Artist
- Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
- Title
- Hotel Box
- Medium
- Wood and glass box construction with found objects, collaged upon a mixed media
- Date
- c. 1950
- Inscriptions
- Signed on the reverse
- Size
- 11 3/8 x 8 9/16 x 4 ins.
- Provenance
- Estate of the Artist (James Corcoran Gallery, CA / Castelli Gallery, NY / Richard Feigen Gallery, NY); Private Collection, California
- Reference
- CC14-152
- Status
- Sold
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