Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

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Property from the Thomas collection

Kurt Schwitters

Mz x 3 is deposited (Mz x 3 zurückgelegt)

Lot Closed

March 26, 12:01 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Thomas collection

Kurt Schwitters

1887 - 1948

Mz x 3 is deposited (Mz x 3 zurückgelegt)

signed Kurt Schwitters, dated 1947, titled MZ X,3 is deposited (lower left on the mount) and dedicated for Wantee 28.9.47 (lower right on the mount)

collage and paper mounted on the artist's mount

Image: 8.5 by 6.5cm., 3¼ by 2½in. Artist's mount: 13.4 by 9.5cm., 5¼ by 3¾in.

Framed: 25.5 by 20.3cm., 10 by 8in.

Executed in 1947.

Edith Thomas, London (acquired from the artist in 1948)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1976

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters. Catalogue raisonné, 1923-36, Hannover, 2000, vol. III, no. 3435, illustrated p. 589

Newcastle, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, No Socks. Kurt Schwitters and the Merzbarn, 1999, no. 50
Hannover, Sprengel Museum; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen & Munich, Haus der Kunst, Aller Anfang ist Merz. Von Kurt Schwitters bis heute / In the Beginning was Merz. From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day, 2000-01, no. 221, illustrated in the catalogue