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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 | 112 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | MZ 161. RUHE, ROT GESTREIFT (MZ 161. REPOSE, RED-STRIPED) |
Works on Paper
8.1 x 6.7 cm (3.19 x 2.64 in)
collage and paper mounted on paper
titled Mz 161 Ruhe, rot gestreift (lower left on the mount), signed K. Sch. and dated 20. (lower right on the mount)
Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin (until 1921)
Ritto Trippi, Switzerland (until 1969)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1969 (acquired from the above)
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker & Marlborough Fine Art, London (from 1969 to 1985)
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1985
Acquired from the above by Dr. Arthur Brandt on June 12, 1985
Berlin, Galerie Der Sturm, Der Sturm. 96. Austellung. Kurt Schwitters. Merzbilder, Merzzeichnungen. Gesamtschau, 1921, no. 40
London, Marlborough Fine Art (& travelling in Switzerland, United States, Italy and Austria), Kurt Schwitters, 1972-73, no. 20, illustrated in the catalogue p. 44
Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte, L'Esperienza moderna 1957-1959, 1976
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, 1985, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Ubu Gallery, Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Collages, Paintings, Drawings, Objects, Ephemera, 2003 (possibly)
Basel, Museum Tinguely, Kurt Schwitters, Merz-ein Gesamtweltbild, 2004
Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, listed 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. 128
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz (ed.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné 1905-22, Hanover, 2000, no. 699, illustrated p. 344
titled Mz 161 Ruhe, rot gestreift (lower left on the mount), signed K. Sch. and dated 20. (lower right on the mount)
collage and paper mounted on paper
collage: 8.1 x 6.7 cm; 3 1/8 x 2 5/8 in.; mount: 17.8 x 12.4 cm; 7 x 4 7/8 in.
Executed in 1920.
