Property from a Distinguished Collection, Europe
Kurt Schwitters
Bild der guten Hoffnung (The picture of good hope)
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Property from a Distinguished Collection, Europe
Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
Bild der guten Hoffnung (The picture of good hope)
signed with the initials KS and dated 40 (lower right); signed K. Schwitters, dated 1940 and titled (on the reverse)
oil, wood and plaster relief
65.7 by 55 cm.
25¾ by 21⅝ in.
Executed in 1940.
Estate of the artist
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (by descent from the above)
Marlborough Fine Art, London (1963-1977)
Susanne Steiner, Forch, Switzerland
Acquired from the above in 1989 by the present owner
Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné 1937-1948, vol. III, Hanover 2003, no. 2622, p. 246, illustrated
Stockholm, Konstsalongen Samlaren im Konstnärshuset; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst und Kunstforeningen; London, Marlborough Fine Art; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Kölnischer Kunstverein & Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kurt MERZ Schwitters. Retrospektivt, 1962-64, no. 154 (Stockholm), no. 224 (Cologne & Rotterdam)
Edinburgh, New 57 Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, 1976, no. C
Oxford, The Museum of Modern Art, Kurt Schwitters. Merzbilder, 1976
New York, Galerie Michael Werner, Kurt Schwitters, 1990, no. 18, illustrated
Krems, Kunsthalle, Chaos, Wahnsinnn. Permutationen der zeitgenössischen Kunst, 1996, p. 191
Vienna, Kunstforum, Schwitters, 2002, no. 99, p. 167, illustrated
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