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Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Ovales Bild mit Kreuz) (Untitled (Oval Picture with Cross))
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Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
Ohne Titel (Ovales Bild mit Kreuz) (Untitled (Oval Picture with Cross))
oil and wood relief
34.5 by 28cm., 13⅝ by 11in.
Framed: 46.2 by 43.7cm., 18⅛ by 17¼in.
Executed circa 1946.
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Edith Thomas, London (the artist's companion; inherited from the artist in 1948 and until 1969)
Hanover Gallery, London (stock no. SR. 187/12; acquired in 1969)
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich (stock no. SR. 187/12)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1969
Hanover Gallery, London (stock no. SR. 187/12; acquired in 1969)
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich (stock no. SR. 187/12)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1969
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné 1937-1948, Hannover, 2003, vol. III, no. 3271, illustrated p. 533
Atlanta, The High Museum of Art (on loan 1987)