About This Artwork

Joseph Cornell
American, 1903–1972

Pavilion, 1953

Box construction
18 7/8 x 11 7/8 x 6 1/2 in.
Titled, signed, and dated on back, on paper label: “Pavillion” [sic] / joseph cornell / 1953. (typed) / Joseph Cornell (in the artist’s hand)
Lindy and Edwin Bergman Joseph Cornell Collection, 1982.1858

Art © The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Sixty-Second American Exhibition: Paintings, Sculpture, 1957, no. 30 (ill.).

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, 1967, no cat. nos., pp. 24, 41 (ill.).

Turin, Galleria Galatea, Joseph Cornell, 1971, no cat. nos., p. 114.

Zurich, Gimpel und Hanover Galerie, Joseph Cornell: Boxes und Collages, 1972, no. 3 (ill.).

Kassel, Neue Galerie and Museum Fredericianum, Documenta 5, 1972, no. 2 (ill.).

Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft Studio, Joseph Cornell, 1972-73, no. 6 (ill.).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, 1980-82, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, Florence, Paris, and Chicago, exh. cat., no. 213 (ill.) and p. 48 (New York and Chicago only).

Publication History

Allen S. Weller, “Chicago,” Arts 31 (Feb. 1957), p. 14.

E.C. Goosen, “The Plastic Poetry of Joseph Cornell,” Art International 3, 10 (1959), p. 40, as Night Sky (ill. upside down).

Sam Hunter, Modern American Painting and Sculpture, New York, 1959, pl. 48.

Herta Wescher, Collage, tr. By Robert E. Wolf, New York, 1968, pl. 215, as Moon Surface.

Diane Waldman, Joseph Cornell, 1977, p. 28 and pl. 29.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ferber, New York, by 1959. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Varenne, Geneva, by 1971. Private collection; sold to the B. C. Holland Gallery, Inc., Chicago, 1975; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1975; given to the Art Institute, 1982.