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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 26, 2008 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper | 216 | $****** - ****** | Ohne Titel, W. C. Fields (Untitled, W. C. Fields) |
Works on Paper
50.2 x 38.7 cm (19.76 x 15.24 in)
collage, netting and papier collé on paper
signed KS and dated 42 (lower left)
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (by descent from the artist in 1948). Galerie Samlaren (Agnes Widlund), Stockholm (acquired from the above in 1966). Rune Högland, Stockholm (acquired in 1967). Sale: Christie's, London, 29th November 1988, lot 424. Heiner Bastian Fine Arts, Berlin (acquired in 1991). Helge Achenbach, Dusseldorf (acquired from the above in 1991
sale: Sotheby's, London, 23rd October 2001, lot 204). Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Stockholm, Kunstsalongen Samlaren, Kurt Schwitters i svenskägo, 1967, no. 48. New York, Michael Werner Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, 1990. Dusseldorf, Achenbach Kunsthandel, Kurt Schwitters, 1993-94, list 1, no. 2. Zurich, Galerie Lelong, Kurt Schwitters, 1994, no. 15. New York, Galerie Michael Werner, Kurt Schwitters. Late Paintings and Collages, 1995, no. 13. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Montreal, Musée des Beaux-Arts & Berlin, Staatliche Museum zu Berlin, Exiles and Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler, 1997-98, no. 68, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. New York, Ubu Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, 2003, no. 63, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste & Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Kurt Schwitters, I is Style, 2006, illustrated in colour in the catalogue. Hanover, Sprengel Museum & Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Merzgebiete Kurt Schwitters und seine Freunde, 2007, no. 260, illustrated in the catalogue
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné, 1937-1948, Hanover, 2006, vol. III, no. 2948, illustrated p. 387
