Property from the Arthur Brandt Collection: Dada, Surrealism and Beyond
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December 17, 05:32 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
KURT SCHWITTERS
(1887 - 1948)
OHNE TITEL (ANKÜNDIGUNGEN) (UNTITLED (ANNOUNCEMENTS))
Signed with initials K.S. and dated 47 (lower left on the mount)
Collage on paper mounted on card
Collage: 3⅞ by 3½ in. (9.8 by 8.3 cm) Mount: 5¾ by 5½ in. (14.7 by 13.8 cm)
Framed: 14¾ by 12½ in. (37.4 by 31.7 cm)
Executed in 1947.
Sale: Christie's, London, June 27, 1989, lot 175
Acquired at the above sale
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Hanover, 2000, no. 3615, illustrated p. 651
Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Valencia, IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez; Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Kurt Schwitters, 1994-95, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, n.n., illustrated in the catalogue