About this artwork
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Status
- On View, Gallery 397
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Léonor Fini
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Title
- The Lost Needle
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- 1932–1942
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Medium
- Drawing by Leonor Fini in pen and black ink on cream wove paper, part of a collage by Joseph Cornell with photograph, printed reproduction, printed labels, and graphite on paper label, on Cornell's mat and frame
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Inscriptions
- Signed on drawing, lower right: "Leonor Fini"; inscribed, lower right, in graphite on paper label: "pour Joseph Cornell / très amicalement / Leonor Fini"; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: "property of Joseph Cornell / 3708 Utopia Parkway / Flushing N.Y."; lower left: "photo by / Chas. Henri Ford"; lower right: "fecit / ca. 1937"
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Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.1 × 17.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/16 in.); Mat and frame: 34.8 × 30.5 cm (13 3/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection
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Reference Number
- 2018.321
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Copyright
- © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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