Joseph Cornell (Nyack, 1903 - New York, 1972)
The Uncertainty Principle I, Mathematics and Music (Double Portrait of Henriette Sontag), 1966
Collage and impression on vinyl
Signed and titled in ink on the back "Joseph Cornell" and "The Uncertainty Principle"
Bears a printed label on the back and inscribed with "Mathematics and Music"
21 x 28 cm
34 x 42 cm (original artist's frame)
Provenance:
- Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York (1967), purchased directly from the artist
- B.C. Holland Gallery, Chicago
- Geneviève and Jean-Paul Kahn collection, Paris

Exhibitions:
- Paris, Grand Palais, "La femme corps et âme, 97ème exposition société des artistes indépendants", Société des Artistes Indépendants, 5 - 27 April 1986
- Milan, Palazzo Reale, "I Surrealisti", 7 June - 10 September 1989, illustrated in the catalogue p. 428 (erroneous bibliography)
- Frankfort, Kunsthalle Frankfurt "Die Surrealisten", 8 December 1989 - 18 February 1990, illustrated in the catalogue p. 249 (erroneous bibliography)

Our thanks to Dr Katharine Conely and to the Joseph Cornell Study Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for their kind contribution.