Sold for:
$403

USA, 1988 ink and collage on paperink and collage on paper 11 h x 8½ w in (28 x 22 cm)
Signed to lower right and dated to letter body.

Johnson displays his typical wit in this letter to Peter Sims which was forwarded to Joan Seeman Robinson. Note the rubber stamp indicating "Collage by Joseph Cornell." His famous correspondences, like this once, were the subject of a Whitney retrospective in 1999.

estimate: $400–600
result: $403



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Date:
2000-10-01

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