Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from an Esteemed Private Collection
Joseph Cornell
Untitled (Harlequin)
Auction Closed
November 14, 01:23 AM GMT
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Esteemed Private Collection
Joseph Cornell
1903 - 1972
Untitled (Harlequin)
signed Joseph Cornell (on a label on the reverse)
box construction with painted wood, natural wood, metal, paper and found objects
17 ⅞ by 11 by 4 ¾ in. 45.4 by 28.1 by 12.1 cm.
Executed circa 1951-53.
Estate of the artist (until at least 1980)
PaceWildenstein, New York
Acquired from the above in 1985 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, 1980-81, pl. 112, p. 288, illustrated (titled Untitled)