Lot 183
  • 183

Kurt Schwitters

Estimate
35,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Kurt Schwitters
  • 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.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

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

Literature

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné, 1937-1948, Hanover, 2006, vol. III, no. 3490, illustrated p. 608

Condition

Mixed media collage on card laid down on the artist's mount. Apart from some time staining to the artist's mount and some studio dirt and creasing to elements of the collage, both intrinsic to the artist's method, this work is in very good condition.
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