Details JOSEPH CORNELL (1903-1972)Untitled (Zizi Jeanmaire Lobster Ballet)signed with the artists initials J.C. (on the reverse)wood box construction—wood, glass, plastic lobsters, acrylic mesh, cardboard, printed paper collage, foil and glitter8 3/4 x 15 x 3 3/4 in. (22.2 x 38.1 x 9.5 cm.)Executed circa 1949. Provenance Rhett and Robert Delford Brown, New York, acquired directly from the artist, 1968Beth Urdang Gallery, BostonAcquired from the above by the present owner, 2000 Literature D. Waldman, Joseph Cornell; Master of Dreams, New York, 2002, pp. 63-64 and 152 (illustrated). Exhibited Salem, Peabody Essex Museumt, Joseph Cornell; Navigating the Imagination, April-August 2007, pp. 280 and 370, no. 109 (illustrated)Lyon, Museé des Beaux-Arts de Lyon; Charlottesville, Fralin Museum of Art, Joseph Cornell and the Surrealists in New York, October 2013-February 2014, p. 56, no. 31 (illustrated). Conditions of sale