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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 17, 2025 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | 446 | $****** - ****** | Radblumen |
paintings
19.7 x 15.2 cm (7.75 x 6 in)
oil, paper, card, canvas, metal and fabric assemblage on cardboard attached to the artist"s window mount
signed, dated and inscribed "K. Sch. 1920. Radblumen. für Vordemberge." (on the artist"s mount)
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Ulm, by whom acquired directly from the artist circa 1925-1930, until 1962.
Ilse Vordemberge-Gildewart, Stuttgart & Rapperswil-Jona, by descent from the above, until at least 1974.
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, by 1982.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 20 June 1982.
Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Kurt Schwitters , February - March 1956, no. 42, p. 32 (titled "Radblumen für Vordemberger").
Bern, Kunsthalle, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters , April - May 1956, no. 96 (titled "Radblumen für Vordemberger").
Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Metalldrucke, Collagen, Materialbilder , 1958, no. 165.
Ulm, Ulmer Museum, 1961, no. 60 (no corresponding exhibition catalogue).
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Collagen aus sechs Jahrzehnten , April - May 1968, no. 70 (illustrated).
Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Collagen, Die Geschichte der Collage , June - August 1968, p. 132 (illustrated).
Lausanne, Musée Cantonal, Berlin XXe siècle, de l"expressionisme à l"art contemporain , November 1968 - January 1969, no. 147 (illustrated).
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Vordemberge-Gildewart Remembered , July - September 1974, no. 103, p. 158 (illustrated 143).
London, Annely Juda Fine Art, Collages and Reliefs 1910-1945 and Hiller-Heliographs , June - October 1982, no. 53, p. 56 (titled "Radblumen für Vordemberger").
W. Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters , Cologne, 1967, no. 26, p. 362 (illustrated n.p.).
J. Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters , London, 1985, no. 74, p. 414 (illustrated ; titled "Radblumen für Vordemberger").
J. Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters , Dusseldorf, 1987, no. 69 (illustrated).
A. Valstar, die abstrakten hannover , diss., Universität Bonn, Bonn, 1987, no. 262 (illustrated).
I. Ewig, Kurt Schwitters Oxymore ou l"art de la contradiction , diss., Sorbonne Université, Paris, 2000, no. 20 (illustrated).
K. Orchard & I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné , vol. I, 1905-1922 , Hanover, 2000, no. 718, p. 350 (illustrated).
KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
Radblumen
signed, dated and inscribed "K. Sch. 1920. Radblumen. für Vordemberge." (on the artist"s mount)
oil, paper, card, canvas, metal and fabric assemblage on cardboard attached to the artist"s window mount
image: 4 1/8 x 3 ¼ in. (10.6 x 8.4 cm.)
artist"s window mount: 7 ¾ x 6 in. (19.8 x 15.2 cm.)
Executed in 1920
