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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 3, 2023 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | 535 | $****** - ****** | Ohne Titel (Contramerk.) |
Works on Paper
13.3 x 11.8 cm (5.25 x 4.63 in)
paper collage on card
Ernst Schwitters, the artist's son, Lysaker.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, by 1993.
Acquired by the present owner in 1993.
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, Auf Papier, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus der Deutschen Bank , March - April 1995, no. 191, p. 312 (illustrated p. 313); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Berlinischen Galerie, Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Photographie und Architektur, May - July 1995; and Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste, August - September 1995.
Heerlen, Stadsgalerij, Kurt Schwitters in Nederland. Merz, De Stijl & Holland Dada, March - June 1997, no. 7, p. 131 (illustrated p. 51).
Bozen, Museion, Abstracta: Austria Germania Italia, 1919-1939, Die andere "entartete Kunst". L'altra "arte degenerata" , September - November 1997, no. 30 (illustrated p. 127); this exhibition later travelled to Innsbruck, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, November 1997 - January 1998; and Trento, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, January - March 1998.
Hanover, Sprengel Museum, In the Beginning was MERZ - from Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day , August - November 2000, no. 82, p. 322 (illustrated p. 111); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, November 2000 - February 2001; and Munich, Haus der Kunst, March - May 2001.
A. Grigoteit (ed.), Ein Jahrhundert: Sammlung Deutsche Bank , Frankfurt, 2001, p. 53 (illustrated).
K. Orchard & I. Schulz (eds.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné , vol. II, 1923-1936 , Hannover, 2003, no. 1130, p. 55 (illustrated pp. 55 & 135).
KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
Ohne Titel (Contramerk.)
paper collage on cardboard
5 1/4 x 4 5/8 in. (13.3 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1923
