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Property of a Private Collector

Kurt Schwitters

Ohne Titel (aka) (Untitled (aka))

Lot Closed

April 14, 01:46 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Collector

Kurt Schwitters

1887 - 1948

Ohne Titel (aka)

(Untitled (aka))


collage on card

Image: 13 by 10.8cm., 5⅛ by 4¼in.

Framed: 42 by 33cm., 16½ by 13in.

Sheet: 19 by 14cm. 7½ by 5½in.

Executed circa 1937-38.

Estate of the artist

Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (inherited from the above in 1948 and until 1965)

Lord's Gallery, London (on consignment from 1959)

Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt (acquired circa 1965-68)

Galleria Schwarz, Milan (acquired circa 1971-77) 

Sale: Christie's, London, 2nd December 1980, lot 156

(probably) Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town 

Acquired from the above by the present owner by 1984

Cambridge, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery; Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery; Leicester, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; Coventry, Herbert Temporary Art Gallery & Glasgow, Glasgow University Print Room, Kurt Schwitters, 1887-1948, 1959-60, no. 59
(probably) Padua, Galleria La Chiocciola, 1971
Basel, Art Basel, Art 3'72 Basel, 1972
Modena, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna-Palazzo dei Musei, Dal Dada al Surrealismo, 1977, no. 148
Lugano, Villa Malpensata-Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, Maler - Schriftsteller. Schriftsteller - Maler. Alter Ego., 1977
Cape Town, South African National Gallery, Master Works on Paper, 1984, n.n. (with incorrect dimensions and titled Aka; Merzbild)
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik und Plastik des XX. Jahrhunderts, 1966, no. 202, illustrated
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik und Plastik des XX. Jahrhunderts, 1967, no. 167, illustrated
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik und Plastik des XX. Jahrhunderts, 1968, no. 98, illustrated