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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 7, 2013 | Christie's | London | Impressionist/Modern Works on Paper | 212 | $****** - ****** | Z 100 Hochgebirge | |||
Nov 14, 1990 | Sotheby's | New York | Property from the Estate of Ned L Pines | 266 | Estimates not disclosed | Hochgerbirge |
Works on Paper
19.4 x 14 cm (7.64 x 5.51 in)
black chalk on paper
signed with the artist's initials 'KS' (lower left)
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker, a gift from the artist, from 1948 to 1965. Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York. Ned L. Pines, by whom acquired from the above in 1965
his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1990, lot 266. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Kurt Schwitters, February - March 1956, no. 13; this exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunsthalle, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Liège. Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, December 1960, no. 3. Ulm, Museum, Kurt Schwitters, March - April 1961, no. 35. Stockholm, Konstsalongen Samiaren i Konstnärshuset, Kurt MERZ Schwitters, 1962, no. 17; this exhibition later travelled to Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst og Kunstforeningen, London, Marlborough Fine Art, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Milan, Toninelli Arte Moderna and Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte. Los Angeles, University of California, Kurt Schwitters Retrospective, March - April 1965; this exhibition later travelled to New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery and Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
K. Orchard & I. Schulz (eds.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1905-1922, Hannover, 2000, no. 342, p. 156 (illustrated). K. Behm, Die frühen Nachkriegszeichnungen von Kurt Schwitters (1918-1923), Universität Marburg, 1997 (MA thesis, unpublished).
