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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 8, 2012 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 46 | $****** - ****** | Ohne Titel (Merzbild Mit Schuhsohle) | |||
May 11, 1994 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture - Part I | 40 | Estimates not disclosed | Das Schuhsohlenbild |
paintings
54.2 x 45 cm (21.34 x 17.72 in)
oil and relief assemblage on plywood
Signed with initials KS and dated 45 (lower right)
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (by descent from the artist in 1948, until 1981)
Private Collection (acquired through Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne in 1981. Sold: Sotheby's New York, May 11, 1994, lot 40)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Stockholm, Konstsalongen Samlaren im Konstnärshuset; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst und Kunstforeningen; Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Kölnischer Kunstverein & Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kurt MERZ Schwitters. Retrospektivt, 1962-64, no. 182 (in Stockholm); no. 255 (in Cologne and Rotterdam) Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Kurt Schwitters, 1978, no. 97, illustrated in color in the catalogue Paris, Grand Palais, FIAC, Galerie Gmurzynska, Kurt Schwitters, 1980, no. 54, illustrated in color in the catalogue (possibly) Cologne, Museen der Stadt Köln, Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, 1981, no. 113, illustrated in the catalogue Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Klassische Moderne, 1981, no. 181, illustrated in color in the catalogue Madrid, Fundación Juan March & Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Kurt Schwitters, 1982-83, no. 175 Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, European Vision, 1987
Marlis Grüterich, 'Kurt Schwitters. Galerie Gmurzynska, Köln', in Kunstforum International, vol. 30, 1978, illustrated p. 220; Renato Maestri, 'ComMerzBankKurt-Schwitters. Una lezione rapsodica', in Domus, vol. 590, Milan, 1979, illustrated in color p. 47; Yusuke Nakahara, 'From the Lifeless View of Scrapping', in Bijutsu Techo, vol. 31, Tokyo, August 1979, illustrated in color; Heidi Bürklin, 'Kurt Schwitters: Vom Bürger zum Bürgerschreck', in Art. Das Kunstmagazin, vol. 10, Hamburg, 1981, illustrated in color p. 91; Ernst Nündel, Kurt Schwitters in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 1981, illustrated p. 120; Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, 1937-1948, vol. 3, Hanover, 2006, no. 3136, illustrated p. 455
