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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2020 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Works on Paper | 109 | $****** - ****** | Ohne Titel (20 ØRE, mit Koranseiten) |
Works on Paper
14.6 x 11.4 cm (5.75 x 4.5 in)
collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
signed 'Kurt Schwitters' and bears date '1936' (on the artist's mount)
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker, by descent from the artist, 1948-1976.
with Lord's Gallery, London, 1959-1976.
Galerie Klewan, Vienna, by whom acquired in 1976.
Galerie Enrico G. Peyer, Zurich, by whom acquired in 1990.
Achenbach Kunsthandel, Dusseldorf, by whom acquired in 1995.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 25 November 1996.
London, Lord's Gallery, A New Selection of Collages by Kurt Schwitters, August - October 1959.
Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, November - December 1959, no. 31; this exhibition later travelled to Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, January 1960; Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, January - February 1960; Leicester, Museum and Art Gallery, February - March 1960; Coventry, Herbert Temporary Art Gallery, March - April 1960; and the Glasgow University Print Room, April - May 1960.
New York, Galerie Michael Werner, Kurt Schwitters, October - November 1990, no. 13 (illustrated).
Dusseldorf, Achenbach Kunsthandel, Kurt Schwitters, November 1993 - January 1994, no. 2.
Herford, Museum MARTa, Things are queer. Highlights from the UniCredit Art Collection, February - June 2011, p. 37 (p. 36, illustrated).
Bologna, MAMbo, La Grande Magia, Selected works from the UniCredit Art Collection, October 2013 - February 2014, p.210 (illustrated, p. 66).
Mettingen, Draiflessen Collection, Die Kunst des Aufbewahrens, January 2016, no.15.
H. Hutton, The Technique of Collage, London & New York, 1968, p. 115 (illustrated).
K. Orchard & I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1923-1936, Hannover, 2003, no. 2062, p. 494 (illustrated).
signed 'Kurt Schwitters' and bears date '1936' (on the artist's mount)
