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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 5, 2015 | Christie's | London | Impressionist / Modern Works on Paper | 232 | $****** - ****** | Mz 193 | |||
Jun 18, 2004 | Galerie Kornfeld | Bern | 19th & 20th Century Art | 139 | $****** - ****** | Collage | |||
Jun 29, 2000 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & 20th Century Works on Paper | 595 | $****** - ****** | Merzz.96 Stehen Gelb | |||
Apr 27, 1998 | Bukowskis | Stockholm | Modern Sale | 331 | $****** - ****** | MZ 37 - composition |
Works on Paper
16.5 x 13.3 cm (6.5 x 5.25 in)
brush and inkwash and paper collage on paper
signed 'Kurt Schwitters.' (on the artist's mount)
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (by descent from the artist).
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London (on consignment from above, 1963-1973).
Acquired by the late owner, circa 1980.
Venice, XXX Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, June-October 1960, p. 147, no. 34 (dated 1922).
São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, Kurt Schwitters, VI Bienal de São Paulo, 1961, p. 42, no. 35 (dated 1922-1923).
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd.; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Kölnischer Kunstverein; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Milan, Toninelli Arte Moderna, Schwitters, March 1963-May 1964, nos. 82 (London), 83 (Cologne and Rotterdam) and 41 (Milan).
Los Angeles, University of California, UCLA Art Galleries; New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc. and Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Kurt Schwitters: Retrospective, March-August 1965, p. 22, no. 64 (dated 1923).
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Art and City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Kurt Schwitters: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1965-April 1966, p. 56, no. 58 (dated 1923).
Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Kunsthalle Basel and Kunstverein Hamburg, Kurt Schwitters, January-November 1971, p. 34, no. 121 (dated 1923).
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd.; Zurich, Malborough Galerie; New York, Marlborough Gallery; Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte and Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kurt Schwitters, October 1972-December 1973, p. 22, no. 29 (illustrated, p. 54; dated 1923).
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art and Fort Worth Art Museum, Dada: Berlin, Cologne, Hannover, November 1980-April 1981 (dated 1923).
K. Orchard and I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné, 1923-1936, Ostfildern, 2003, vol. 2, p. 219, no. 1469 (illustrated).
signed 'Kurt Schwitters.' (on the artist's mount)
brush and inkwash and paper collage on paper
Image size: 6 ½ x 5 ¼ in. (16.5 x 13.2 cm.)
Mount size: 11 1/8 x 7 ¾ in. (28.4 x 20 cm.)
Executed in 1926-1928