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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Hugo Gallery, La Lanterne Magique du Ballet Romantique of Joseph Cornell, 1949, no cat.

The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Nieuwe Realisten, 1964, no. 40 (ill.), as Poison Boxes.

New York 1967, no cat. nos., pp. 19, 23, 35 (ill.), as Nouveaux Contes de fées (Poison Box).

Chicago 1973-74, no cat. nos., n. pag., as Nouveaux Contes de fées (Poison Box).

Houston, Rice University, Institute for the Arts, Joseph Cornell, 1977, no cat.

New York 1980-82, no. 106 (ill.), as Untitled (Nouveaux Contes de fées) (New York and Chicago only).

Publication History

Harold Rosenberg, “The Art World: Object Poems,” New Yorker 43 (June 3, 1967), p. 112.

Harold Rosenberg, Artworks and Packages, New York, 1969, pp. 75-76 (ill.).

Henri Coulonges, “Cornell et ses oeuvres fragiles connaissent subitement une faveur grandissante,” Connaissance des arts 262 (Dec. 1973), p. 131 (ill.), as Nouveaux Contes de fées (Boîte à poison).

Katherine Kuh, “ Joseph Cornell: In Pursuit of Poetry,” Saturday Review 2, 25 (Sept. 6, 1975), pp. 37 (ill.), 39, as Poison Box.

Diane Waldman, Joseph Cornell, 1977, pl. 76 and p. 26, as Nouveaux Contes de fées (Poison Box).

Saturday Review 1980, p. 58 (photo of Bergman home).

A. M. Hammacher, Phantoms of the Imagination: Fantasy in Art and Literature from Blake to Dalí, New York, 1981, p. 344 and fig. 323, as Nouveaux Contes de fées (Poison Box).

U. of C. Magazine 1982, p. 25 (photo of Bergman home).

Rosalind Krauss, “Grids,” October 9 (Summer 1979), p. 62 (ill.).

Dickran Tashjian, Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire, Miami Beach, FL 1992, p. 27 and pl. 6, as Nouveaux Contes de fees (Poison Box).

Ownership History

Eleanor Ward, New York, by 1964; Stable Gallery, New York; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1966; given to the Art Institute, 1982.