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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 21, 2017 | Sotheby's | Paris | Collection Arthur Brandt : Dada, Surréalisme et au-delà | 118 | $****** - ****** | Good | ROSA COLLAGE (PINK COLLAGE) |
Works on Paper
27.3 x 22.3 cm (10.75 x 8.78 in)
collage, paper and tissue on cardboard
signed Kurt Schwitters and dated 1940 (lower left), titled pink collage (lower right)
Private collection (acquired from the artist and thence by descent)
Timothy Baum, New York
Acquired from the above by Dr. Arthur Brandt on May 6, 1985
London, The Modern Art Gallery, Paintings and Sculptures by Kurt Schwitters, 1944, no. 2a
Paris, Musée national d'Art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou; Valencia, IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez; Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Kurt Schwitters, 1994-95, p. 380 (French edition), p. 444 (Spanish edition)
Hanover, Sprengel Museum Hannover; Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Aller Anfang ist Merz, Von Kurt Schwitters bis heute, 2000-01, no. 163, illustrated in the catalogue p. 164
New York, Ubu Gallery, Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Collages, Paintings, Drawings, Objects, Ephemera, 2003, no. 64, illustrated in the catalogue
Basel, Museum Tinguely, Kurt Schwitters, Merz-ein Gesamtwelbild, 2004, no. 133, illustrated in the catalogue p. 196
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 134
Houston, The Menil Collection; Princeton, Princeton University Art Museum; Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, 2010-11, no. 9, illustrated in the catalogue p. 109
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz (ed.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Band 3 1937-1948, Hanover, 2006, no. 2689, illustrated p. 267
signed Kurt Schwitters and dated 1940 (lower left), titled pink collage (lower right)
collage, paper and tissue on cardboard
27.3 x 22.3 cm; 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.
Executed in 1940.
