Lot 123
  • 123

Kurt Schwitters

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 EUR
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Description

  • Kurt Schwitters
  • Ohne Titel (Hommage an Sir Herbert Read) Untitled (Hommage to Sir Herbert Read)
  • collage, pasted paper reproduction and ink on paper
  • collage: 17.2 x 25.5 cm; 6 3/4 x 10 in.; mount: 30.6 x 41.2 cm; 12 1/8 x 16 1/4 in.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 13, 1964, lot 15
Nathan Cummings, New York (by descent and sold: Christie's, New York, November 13, 1985, lot 176)
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

London, The Mayor Gallery, The Golden Age of Collage: Dada and Surrealism Eras 1916-1950, 1987, no. 33, illustrated in the catalogue n. p. and on the frontispiece
Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou; Valencia, IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez; Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Kurt Schwitters, 1994-95, p. 300 (detail), p. 330 and p. 381 (French edition); p. 390 and p. 444 (Spanish edition) 
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz Neue Nationalgalerie, Exiles + Emigrés, The Flight of European Artists from Hitler / Exil-Flucht und Emigration europäischer Künster 1933-1948, 1997-98, no. 129, illustrated in the catalogue
Hanover, Sprengel Museum Hannover; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Aller Anfang ist Merz, Von Kurt Schwitters bis heute, 2000-01, no. 191, illustrated in the catalogue p. 167
New York, Ubu Gallery, Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Collages, Paintings, Drawings, Objects, Ephemera, 2003, no. 29, illustrated in the catalogue
Basel, Museum Tinguely, Kurt Schwitters, Merz-ein Gesamtwelbild, 2004, no. 138, illustrated in the catalogue p. 229
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 136

Literature

Stefan Themerson, Kurt Schwitters in England, London, 1958, p. 29
Nicholas Wadley, "The Late Work of Kurt Schwitters", in Kurt Schwitters in Exile: The Late Work 1937-1948. Kurt Schwitters im Exil: Das Spätwerk 1937-1948 (exhibition catalogue), London, 1981, fig. 44, p. 67
La Planète affolée, Surréalisme, Dispersion et Influences 1938-1947 (exhibition catalogue), Marseilles, 1986, p. 160
Friedhelm Lach & Denis Marleau , Merz Opéra, Theatre-collage, Montreal, 1988, p. 137
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz (ed.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Band 3 1937-1948, Hanover, 2006, no. 3082, illustrated p. 435

Condition

Collage elements are stable, laid down on paper which is laid down on card. There are three restorations, one at the centre of the lower edge, one to the lower right corner and one to the upper part of the right edge, which have been stabilized by the laying down process. There is a tear (approx 8 mm long) to the upper part of the left edge and a few further tiny nicks in places to the edges. This work is in fairly good condition.
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