Joseph Cornell’s studio in the basement of his family home in Queens, New York, 1971 | image © Harry Roseman
Joseph Cornell Pharmacy, 1943 Glass-paned wood cabinet, marbled paper, mirror, glass shelves, and twenty glass bottles containing various paper cuttings (crêpe, tissue, printed engravings, and maps), colored sand, pigment, colored aluminum foil, feathers, paper butterfly wing, dried leaf, glass marble, fibers, driftwood, wood marbles, glass rods, beads, seashells, crystals, stone, wood shavings, sawdust, sulfate, copper, wire, fruit pits, paint, water, and cork, 15 ¼ × 12 × 3⅛ inches (38.7 x 30.5 × 7.9 cm) © 2025 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Dominique Uldry
Joseph Cornell A Dressing Room for Gille, 1939 Paint, printed paper, mirror, cork, cotton thread, textiles, ribbon tape, wire mesh, and glass-paned wood box construction, 15 × 8¾ × 6 % inches (38.1 × 22.2 × 16.8 cm) © 2025 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Owen Conway
Joseph Cornell Untitled (Medici Series, Pinturicchio Boy), c. 1950 Wood, glass, metal, printed paper, and ink in wood and printed paper box construction, 15 ¾ × 12 × 4 inches (40x cm) © 2025 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Owen Conway
Chambre Gothique Moutarde Dijon Pour Aloysius Bertrand ‘Sulphide’, 1950
Joseph Cornell, Flemish Princess, c. 1950, Wood, printed paper, wood balls, cork, and tinted glass-paned wood box construction, 17 3/8 x 10 1/4 x 2 5/8 inches (44.1 x 26 x 6.7 cm), © 2025 The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy Michael Rosenfeld Gallery and Gagosian
drawers are filled with more than three hundred objects drawn from the artist’s own collection
Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) is often described through negation
conceived by curator Jasper Sharp in collaboration with Wes Anderson
project info:
name: The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson
location: Gagosian Paris | @gagosian, 9 rue de Castiglione, Paris
dates: December 16th, 2025 – March 14th, 2026
designer: Wes Anderson
artist: Joseph Cornell
curator: Jasper Sharp
exhibition design: Cécile Degos