Art Institute of Chicago

Homage to the Romantic Ballet

Joseph Cornell · 1942

Provenance

Ownership history

Sold by the artist to William Copley, Beverly Hills, California, by 1948; sold to Richard L. Feigen, New York, July 1969; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1976; given to the Art Institute, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Beverly Hills, California, Copley Galleries, Objects by Joseph Cornell, 1948, cat. 2, as Tagioli Jewel Case.
Pasadena, California, Pasadena Art Museum, An Exhibition of Works by Joseph Cornell, December 27, 1966–February 11, 1967, p. 26-27, 59, cat. 13 (ill.).
New York, The Cosmopolitan Club, Joseph Cornell, 1970, no cat.
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Depth and Presence, May 3–30, 1971, no cat. nos., n. pag.
Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Cornell (1930-1972), December 23, 1973–June 3, 1974, no cat.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, March 16–September 26, 1976, pp. 163-166, fig. 245 (ill.), 338, cat. 43.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Spirit of Surrealism, October 3–November 25,1979, pp. 166-67 (ill.), 172, cat. 102.
New York, Castelli, Feigen, Corcoran, Joseph Cornell and the Ballet, November 2–December 18, 1983, pp. 13–16, cat. 6 (ill.).

Literature

Dore Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album (New York: Viking Press, 1974), pp. 26 (ill.), 75, 99.
Rosalind Krauss, Passages in Modern Sculpture, (New York: The Viking Press, 1977), p. 124, 127, fig. 96 (ill.).
Dickran Tashjian, Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire (Miami Beach: Grassfield Press, 1992), p. 113–114, pl. 34.
Dawn Ades, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997), p. 45–47, cat. 20 (color ill.)

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