Artworks

Julio Le Parc

Black wood box, 21 x 19 3/4 x 5 5/8" (53.4 x 50 x 14.1 cm), with illuminated aperture, 7 7/8 x 8" (20 x 20.2 cm), in which fifty-four plastic squares, 1 1/2 x 1 1/2" (3.6 x 3.6 cm), are suspended from eighteen nylon threads; mirror backing, 11 7/8 x 16" (30.1 x 40.4 cm), two reflectors, three sets of interchangeable pierced metal screens, and two glass filters · 1961

Ben Vautier

Painted wood box · 1960

Bruce Conner

Wax figure, suitcase, tin cans, shredded nylon, and other materials, in wood box · 1960

Pablo Picasso

Wood box, nails, buttons, painted plaster, and painted synthetic resin mounted on ceramic dish · 1958

Jasper Johns

Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front · 1955

Robert Rauschenberg

Wood box with lid and removable balsa wood-and-fabric cube · 1953

Victor Brauner

Wax figure with burr, seeds, pebbles, hair, and buckshot on painted wood in glass wood box · 1947

Joseph Cornell

Glass-paned, painted wood box with black sand, metal ring, and ball bearings · 1944

Joseph Cornell

Wood box with compasses set into a wood tray containing small miscellaneous objects, with hinged lid lined with maps · 1942

Joseph Cornell

Painted wood box, printed papers, pins, brass thimble, cardboard, and copper screen · 1934

Arthur Dove

Wood box with magnifying glass, bone, moss, bark, and a scale on varnished cloth mounted on wood · 1925

Marcel Duchamp

Wood box 11 1/8 x 50 7/8 x 9" (28.2 x 129.2 x 22.7 cm), with three threads 39 3/8" (100 cm), glued to three painted canvas strips 5 1/4 x 47 1/4" (13.3 x 120 cm), each mounted on a glass panel 7 1/4 x 49 3/8 x 1/4" (18.4 x 125.4 x 0.6 cm), three wood slats 2 1/2 x 43 x 1/8" (6.2 x 109.2 x 0.2 cm), shaped along one edge to match the curves of the threads · 1913

Joseph Cornell

Papered and painted wood box, with painted corrugated cardboard bottom, containing doll in cloth dress and straw hat with cloth flowers, dried flowers, and twigs, flecked with paint