Pantry Ballet (for Jacques Offenbach), (sculpture).

Pantry Ballet (for Jacques Offenbach), (sculpture).

Cornell, Joseph, 1903-1972, sculptor.

Pantry Ballet (for Jacques Offenbach), (sculpture).

10 1/2 x 18 1/16 x 6 in. (26.7 x 45.9 x 15.2 cm.).

"Brown box construction with black painted border around glass front and red-velvet interior frame, before another frame made of cutout of marine-form print with paper doilies attached at upper corners and top. Ten red plastic lobsters with bead necklaces and tulle skirts hang from strings. Above them are miniature tin spoons, forks, and pans suspended from top by strings. Sides are mirrored and back and bottom covered with rosette/diamond-patterned paper."

Animal -- Fish -- Lobster

Performing Arts -- Dance -- Ballet

Homage -- Offenbach, Jacques

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64111 Accession Number: F77-34

Joseph Cornell, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1980-1981.

Museum of Modern Art, "Joseph Cornell," New York, 1980.

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, "A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions 1977-1987," 1987.

William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, "A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions 1977-1987," 1987, pg. 185.

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