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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 24, 2018 | Sotheby's | Paris | Collection Arthur Brandt | 336 | $****** - ****** | OHNE TITEL (ENTWURF FÜR TITEL ZU: KURT SCHWITTERS, ANNA BLUME. DICHTUNGEN, DIE SILBERGÄULE 39/40, PAUL STEEGEMANN VERLAG, HANNOVER 1920) (UNTITLED (DRAFT OF TITLE PAGE FOR KURT SCHWITTERS, ANNA BLUME. DICHTUNGEN, DIE SILBERGÄULE 39/40, PAUL STEEGEMANN VERLAG, HANOVER 1920)) |
Works on Paper
22.2 x 14.3 cm (8.74 x 5.63 in)
watercolour and ink on paper on the cover of a book
signed Schwitters and dated 1919 (towards centre left)
Hermann Virl, Munich (to 1958)
Sale: Munich, Münchener Kunstversteigerungshaus Adolf Weinmüller, October 1966, lot 604
Bremen, Grasphisches Kabinett, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner
Ex Libris, New York (acquired from the above in 1992)
Spencer Collection, New York Public Library, New York (since 2000, loan)
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 15, 2004, lot 319
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt
Berlin, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner c/o Susanne Gropp, Kurt Schwitters, 1992, illustrated in the catalogue no. 1
Hanover, Sprengel Museum Hannover; Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Aller Anfang ist Merz, Von Kurt Schwitters bis heute, 2000-01, no. 31, illustrated in the catalogue p. 37
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism and More from the Brandt Collection, 2006, illustrated in the catalogue p. 126
Werner Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, Cologne, 1967, illustrated p. 42
John Elderfield, "The Early Work of Kurt Schwitters", in Artforum, Vol. X, Folder 3 (November), 1971, pp. 54-67, illustrated p. 62
Kurt Schwitters (exhibition catalogue), Madrid, 1982, illustrated n. p.
Kurt Schwitters, Dada, Collages, Drawings, Objects (exhibition catalogue), Chicago, 1982, illustrated p. 12
John Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters (exhibition catalogue), New York/London, 1985, illustrated fig. 33
Kurt Schwitters, Words and Works (exhibition catalogue), New York, 1985, illustrated n. p.
Tina Grütter, "... Es galt aus den Scherben Neues zu bauen", in Artis, Folder 4, 1986, pp. 54-57, illustrated p. 54
Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Ausstelung zum 99. Geburtstag (exhibition catalogue), Berlin, 1986, illustrated fig. 66
Expressionisten, Die Avant-garde in Deutschland 1905-1920 (exhibition catalogue), Berlin, 1986, fig. 296
Von Merz bis heute, Kurt Schwitters zum 100 (exhibition catalogue), Altenburg, 1987, illustrated p. 17
John Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters, Düsseldorf, 1987, illustrated fig. 32
Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Der Künstler von MERZ (exhibition catalogue), Bremen, 1989, illustrated n. p.
Art & Publicité 1890-1990 (exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1990, illustrated p. 252
Dorothea Dietrich, The Collages of Kurt Schwitters, Tradition and Innovation, Cambridge (Masssachussetts) (1993), 1995, illustrated fig. 44
Paul Steegemann Verlag 1919-1935/1949-1955, Sammlung Marzona (exhibition catalogue), Hanover, 1994, illustrated p. 40
Kurt Schwitters (exhibition catalogue), Paris, 1994, illustrated p. 72 and p. 187
Kurt Schwitters (exhibition catalogue), Valencia, 1995, illustrated p. 176 and p. 218
Christopher Green, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, The European Avant-gardes, Art in France and Western Europe, 1904-c. 1945, London, 1995, illustrated p. 425
Hans-Jürgen Hereth, Die Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte von Kurt Schwitters dargestellt anhand seines Gedichts "An Anna Blume" (Series: Forschungen zur Literatur-und Kulturgeschichte, Vol. 53), Frankfurt (Main) and others, 1996, illustrated p. 291
Kim Behm, Die frühen Nachkriegszeichnungen von Kurt Schwitters (1918-1923), unpublished, Master thesis, Marburg, 1997, illustrated fig. 79
Ines Katenhusen, Kunst und Politik, Hannovers Auseinandersetzungen mit der Moderne in der Weimarer Republik, Hanover, 1998, illustrated p. 635
Kurt Schwitters y el espíritu de la utopía, Colección Ernst Schwitters (exhibition catalogue), Madrid, 1999, illustrated p. 10
Isabelle Ewig, Kurt Schwitters Oxymore ou l'art de la contradiction, unpublished, diss., Paris, 2000, illustrated fig. 5
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz (ed.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Band 1 1905-22, Hanover, 2000, no. 547, illustrated p. 256
signed Schwitters and dated 1919 (towards centre left)
watercolour and ink on paper on the cover of a book
22,2 x 14,3 cm; 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.
Executed in 1919.
