Sep 22, 2022 - Sale 2614

Sale 2614 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JOSEPH CORNELL
Monkey.

Paper collage on board, circa 1962-67. 305x230 mm; 12 1/8x9 inches. With the artist's original frame.

Provenance: The artist's sister, Elizabeth Benton; private collection, New York.

For the current work, Cornell (1903-1972) reappropriated a printed image of a Sothern Song Dynasty ink on silk work attributed to Mao Song (active 1127-50) currently in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum, Japan.