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Property of a Private Collector

Kurt Schwitters

Ohne Titel (aka) (Untitled (aka))

Lot Closed

September 17, 10:38 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 EUR

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 4¼ in.

Sheet: 19 by 14cm., 7½ by 5½ in.

Framed: 42 by 33cm., 16½ by 13 in.

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 

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

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné 1937 - 1948, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2006, vol. III, no. 2264, illustrated p. 92