Kurt Schwitters
Mz 70, Der Rote Fleck (Mz 70, The Red Spot)
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Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
Mz 70, Der Rote Fleck (Mz 70, The Red Spot)
signed and dated 1920 (lower right); titled (lower left)
collage, on artist's mount
collage: 15.1 by 11.6 cm.; 6 by 4⅝ in.
artist's mount: 25.1 by 18.3 cm.; 9⅞ by 7¼ in.
Executed in 1920.
Galerie Berggruen, Paris (acquired before 1952)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired by 1952 - 1955)
G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (acquired by 1955)
Paul Hänggi, Basel (acquired by 1961)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1963)
Marlborough Fine Art, London together with Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (acquired by 1963-1970)
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (acquired by 1970)
Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York; The Arts Club of Chicago, Collage, Painting, Relief & Sculpture by Schwitters, 13 October - 16 December 1952;
Thompson Collection, Zurich, Dusseldorf, Den Haag, 1960-1961
Marlborough Fine Art, London, Wallraf-Richartz Museum und Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, Rome, Kurt MERZ Schwitters 1887-1948, March 1963 - May 1964
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York; The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (Missouri); Art Gallery Toronto, Toronto (Ontario), Kurt Schwitters. Retrospective., 21 March 1965 - 10 October 1965
Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Kurt Schwitters, 15 January - 21 November 1971
Hayward Gallery, London, Arts Council of Great Brittain: Dada and Surrealism Reviewd, 11 January - 27 March, 1978
Fundación Juan March, Madrid; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Kurt Schwitters, September 1982 - 23 January 1983
The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa; Seibu Hall, Seibu Department Stores; Otsu Store, Otsu, June - January 1984
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; London, Tate Gallery; Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kurt Schwitters, 1985-1986, in the New York catalogue no. 99; in the London catalogue no.6; in the Hannover catalogue no. 35
Basel, Museum Tinguely, Kurt Schwitters: Merz - ein Gesamtweltbild, 1 May - 22 August 2004
Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné - volume 1: 1905-1922, Hannover, 2000, no. 646, p. 293, illustrated
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