Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
ZWEI GELBE FLECKEN (TWO YELLOW SPOTS)
signed
Kurt Schwitters,
dated
1947, titled and numbered
16a on the artist's mount
mixed media collage on card laid down on the artist's mount
collage size: 14.6 by 11.5cm., 5 3/4 by 4 1/2 in.
mount size: 25.9 by 19.5cm., 10 1/4 by 7 3/4 in.
Executed in 1947.
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Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Chicago (acquired from the above circa 1956)
Lora F. Marx, Chicago (sale: Sotheby's, New York, 16th November 1989, lot 150)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture & Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mies in America, 2001-02, no. 2.19, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné, 1937-1948, Hanover, 2006, vol. III, no. 3490, illustrated p. 608