A Pantry Ballet (for Jacques Offenbach)

Artist Joseph Cornell (American, 1903 - 1972)

Date1942

MediumWood, plastic, paper, and metal

DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 × 18 1/8 × 6 inches (26.67 × 46.05 × 15.24 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Friends of Art

Object numberF77-34

On View

Not on view

Collections

Modern Art

Terms

Provenance

Purchased from the artist by Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979), New York, NY, by 1946 [1];

Her gift to her ex-husband, Laurence Vail (1891-1968), New York, NY;

His gift to his daughter, Pegeen Guggenheim Rumney (1907-1999), New York, NY, by 1964 [2];

Purchased from Rumney, through Leo Castelli, by dealer Richard L. Feigen (1930-2021), New York, NY, March 25, 1964-1977 [3];

Purchase from Feigen by the Friends of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1977;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1977.

NOTES:

[1] According to Peggy Guggenheim, in a letter to Ellen Goheen, Curator, April 1, 1979, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

[2] Ibid.

[3] According to Richard L. Feigen, in a letter to Gohee, February 14, 1979, Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.

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