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

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Property from the Thomas collection

Kurt Schwitters

Ohne Titel (Gebogene Formen) (Untitled (Curving Forms))

Lot Closed

March 26, 02:15 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Thomas collection

Kurt Schwitters

1887 - 1948

Ohne Titel (Gebogene Formen) (Untitled (Curving Forms))

signed KS and dated 41 (lower right); signed Kurt Schwitters, inscribed Bild abstrakt Hutchinson I and dated 1941 on the reverse

oil on panel

60 by 47.8cm., 23⅝ by 18¾in.

Framed: 76.2 by 63.2cm., 30 by 24⅞in.

Painted in 1941.

Edith Thomas, London (acquired from the artist in 1948)
Thence by descent to the present owner in 1991

Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kurt Schwitters in the Lake District, 1964, no. 1
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kurt Schwitters in England, 1982, no. 56
Sheffield, Sheffield City Art Galleries & Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Schwitters in Britain, 1987
Newcastle, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, No Socks. Kurt Schwitters and the Merzbarn, 1999, no. 23

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters. Catalogue raisonné, 1923-36, Hannover, 2000, vol. III, no. 2774, illustrated p. 294