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Property from the former Collection of Werner Schmalenbach

Kurt Schwitters

Mz 231 Miss Blanche

Lot Closed

March 26, 12:05 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the former Collection of Werner Schmalenbach

Kurt Schwitters

1887 - 1948

Mz 231 Miss Blanche


signed K. Schwitters. and dated 1923 (lower right) and titled (lower left)

collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount

Image size: 15.8 by 12.8cm., 6¼ by 5in.

Mount size: 31.2 by 22.1cm., 12¼ by 8¾in.

Framed: 37.2 by 31.2cm., 14⅝ by 12¼in.

Executed in 1921. 

Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (acquired by 1948) 
Collection Werner Schmalenbach, Dusseldorf (acquired by 1956)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Werner Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, Munich, 1984, no. 67, illustrated n.p.
Serge Lemoine, Dada, Geneva, 1986, illustrated in colour p. 58
Dian Pouw, ‘Kurt Schwitters in Hanover’, Un Vrij Nederland, Hanover, 1986, illustrated p. 22
John Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters, London/New York, 1987, no. 12, illustrated in colour p. 18
David A. Steel, ‘DADA-ADAD: Kurt Schwitters, Poetry, Collage, Typography and the Advert’, Word & Image, vol. 6, no. 2, April-June 1990, illustrated p. 206
Jean-Christophe Bailly, Kurt Schwitters, Paris, 1993, illustrated p. 99
Gabriele Mahn, ‘Merz et les Autres’, Beaux Art Magazine, Paris, 1994, illustrated in colour p. 44
Serge Lemoine, ‘Retrospective Schwitters’, Connaissance des Arts, vol. 512, 1994, no. 5, illustrated in colour
Hubert van den Berg ed., Holland's Bankroet door Dada: documenten van een dadaïstische triomftocht door Nederland, Amsterdam, 1995, illustrated p. 91
Dorothea Dietrich, ‘Merz and the Longing for Wholeness’, in Charlotte Stokes & Stephen C. Foster eds., Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, Dada: Cologne Hanover, New York, 1997,vol. III, no. 2.11, illustrated n.p.
K. Schippers, Holland Dada, Amsterdam, 2000, illustrated p. 104
Dorothea Dietrich, ‘Absenzen/Präsenzen. Kurt Schwitters‘ Späte Collagen’, Ausstellung Leipzig, 2000, illustrated p. 60
Werner Schmalenbach, Kunst!: Reden, Streiten, Schreiben, Cologne, 2000, illustrated in colour p. 72
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné 1923-1936, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, vol. II, no. 1114, illustrated p. 49
Prague, Kunstverein für Böhmen, Sonderausstellung Kurt Schwitters, 1926-27, no. 26
Wiesbaden, Neuen Museum; Wiesbadener Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst; Bochum, Städtische Gemäldegalerie & Barmen, Ruhmeshalle, Grosse Merzausstellung, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, 1927, no. 126
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Bern, Kunsthalle; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts & Liège, Musée des Beaux-Arts  Kurt Schwitters, 1956, no. 117 (Hanover), no. 155 (Bern), no. 102 (Amsterdam), 1956, no. 52 (Brussels & Liège)
Venice, XXX Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, Kurt Schwitters, 1960, no. 37
Hanover, Kunstverein, Die Zwanziger Jahre in Hannover, 1962, no. E10, illustrated in the catalogue
Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunst des 20. Jh. aus Rheinisch-Westfälischem Privatbesitz, 1967, no. 329, illustrated in the catalogue
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Collagen aus Sechs Jahrzehnten, 1968, no. 74, illustrated in the catalogue
Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Zürich, Die Geschichte der Collage, 1968, no. 137, illustrated in the catalogue
Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Basel, Kunsthalle Basel & Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg, Kurt Schwitters, 1971, no. 101, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Gallery & Hanover, Sprengel Museum, Kurt Schwitters, 1985-86, no. 12 (New York), no. 136 (London), no. 177 (Hanover), illustrated in colour in the catalogue
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago & Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture, 1990, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou; Valencia, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern & Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Kurt Schwitters, 1994-95, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Heerlen, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Kurt Schwitters in Nederland, Merz, De Stijl en Holland Dada, 1997, no. 9, illustrated in colour in the catalogue