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Description: Joseph Cornell (1903-1972)
The Sister Shades #2
signed, titled and dated '"The Sister Shades" #2 1956 Joseph Cornell' (on paper labels affixed to the reverse)
paper and printed paper collage with amber glass in artist's frame
14¾ x 11¾ in. (37.5 x 29.8 cm.)
Executed in 1956.

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Provenance: Mrs. Elizabeth Benton
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1979

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Exhibited: New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle and Bremen, Kunsthalle, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January 1976-July 1979, p. 91, no. 150.
New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., Works on Paper, Small Format, Objects: Duchamp to Heizer, February-March 1977.

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Published: D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell, New York, 1977, pp. 36-37 (illustrated in color).

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Notes: PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT AND JEAN SHOENBERG