Lot 189
  • 189

Kurt Schwitters

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Kurt Schwitters
  • UNTITLED (SILHOUETTE)
  • signed K. Schwitters and dated 1919 (lower right)
  • paper collage on paper

  • 13.4 by 9.3cm., 5 1/4 by 3 5/8 in.

Provenance

Margaret Anderson, Paris (sale: Sotheby's, Gentilly, December 1976, lot 290b)
Galerie Jacques Benador, Geneva

Exhibited

Geneva, Galerie Jacques Benador, 1997, no. 1

Literature

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz (eds.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue RaisonnĂ© 1905-22, Hanover, 2000, vol. I, no. 569, illustrated p. 264

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the overmount along the top edge. There is a flattened crease to the lower left edge and a small flattened crease to the lower left corner. Apart from some studio dirt, this work is in good condition.
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