About This Artwork
Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972
Untitled (Soap Bubble Set)c. 1957
Box construction
9 1/8 x 14 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.; 2 1/4 x 3/8 in. rubber "bumper" bottom center on back
Signed on back, lower right, on paper label: Joseph Cornell
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1848
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 397
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Chicago, Rosenstone Art Gallery, Bernard Horwich Center, Surrealism, 1966, no. 17, as Soap Bubble Set.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty-seventh Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, 1967, no cat.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from Chicago Collections, 1973, no cat. nos., n. pag., as Dream World.
Publication History
Mary Ann Caws, Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds, New York, 1996, p. 121 (ill.).
Ownership History
Sold by the artist to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, October 1959; given to the Art Institute, 1982.