Lot 114
  • 114

Kurt Schwitters

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
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Description

  • Kurt Schwitters
  • Ohne Titel (fa) Untitled (fa)
  • signed K. Schwitters (lower left on the mount) and dated 1926 (lower right on the mount)
  • collage, paper, cardboard and burlap mounted on paper
  • collage: 7.6 x 5.7 cm; 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in.; mount: 16.8 x 12.9 cm; 6 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.

Provenance

Samuel and Luella Maslon, United States, 2002
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 9, 2002, lot 240
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Basel, Museum Tinguely, Kurt Schwitters, Merz-ein Gesamtweltbild, 2004
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 130

Literature

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz (ed.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Band 2 1923-1936, Hanover & Bonn, 2003, no. 1440, illustrated p. 209

Condition

Please note that images of lots 113 and 114 have been inverted in the printed catalogue. Collage on paper mounted on card, floating in the mount. The mount is taped to the backing board at all four corners. Collage elements appears entirely stable. There is a window of time-staining due to previous mounting. There is a spot of foxing to the mount towards the centre of the left edge and some paper skinning to the lower right corner. This work is in very good original condition.
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