Lot 116
  • 116

Kurt Schwitters

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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Description

  • Kurt Schwitters
  • Ohne Titel (D6 No. 50) Untitled (D6 No. 50)
  • collage, paper and cardboard mounted on paper
  • collage: 10.4 x 7.1 cm; 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in; mount: 17.2 x 13.3 cm; 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.

Provenance

Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (artist's son)
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (from 1978 to 1990)
Acquired from the above by Dr. Arthur Brandt on October 28, 1990

Exhibited

Stockholm, Konstsalongen Samlaren, Kurt Schwitters, Aphorismer 1918-1947, Collage och relief, 1965, no. 32
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Kurt Schwitters, 1978, no. 23, illustrated in the catalogue p. 92
Paris, Grand Palais, FIAC, Galerie Gmurzynska (Cologne), Kurt Schwitters, 1980, no. 13, illustrated in the catalogue p. 90
Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou; Valencia, IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez; Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Kurt Schwitters, 1994-95, p. 378 (French edition), p. 442 (Spanish edition)
New York, Ubu Gallery, Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Collages, Paintings, Drawings, Objects, Ephemera, 2003
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 131

Literature

Renato Maestri, "ComMerzBankKurt-Schwitters. Una lezione rapsodica", in Domus, vol. 590, Milan, 1979, illustrated p. 47
Marc Dachy, Dada & les dadaïsmes, Paris, 1994, illustrated on the cover
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz (ed.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Band 2 1923-1936, Hanover & Bonn, 2003, no. 1166, illustrated p. 69

Condition

Collage on cream wove paper, set into the frame, with a window mount exposing the verso. Collage elements are stable. The sheet is slightly discoloured in places and there are two small scuffs to the right part of the lower edge and the lower part of the right edge. This work appears to be in very good original condition.
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