LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Oil on wood on wooden panel

Measurements:

29.02 in. (73.70 cm.) (height) by 24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed dated and titled 'Kurt Schwitters 1926/36 Das Gustav Finzler=Bild' in pencil verso

Condition:

Framed; minimal color loss

Exhibited:

Exhibitions Basel 1948 (Galerie d'Art Moderne) Gedächtnisausstellung Kurt Schwitters; New York 1952 (Sidney Janis Gallery) Collage Painting Relief and Sculpture by Schwitters cat. no. 59; New York 1955 (Sidney Janis Gallery) New Arrivals from France. From Picasso to Giacometti; New York 1956 (Sidney Janis Gallery) Kurt Schwitters cat. no. 28; New York 1963 (Galerie Chalette) Kurt Schwitters cat. no. 33; New York 1973 (Marlborough Gallery); Cologne 1978 (Galerie Gmurzynska) Kurt Schwitters cat. no. 30 (adhesive label verso)

Literature:

Literature Cercle et carré No 2 L5.IV.1930 mit Abb.; Abstraction Création Art non figuratif No. 1 1932 p. 33 with illus.; exhib. cat. X Years of Janis. 10th Anniversary Exhibition Sidney Janis Gallery New York 1958 cat. no. 62 (presumably not exhibited); Harriet Janis und Rudi Blesh Collage. Personalities Concepts Techniques Philadelphia/New York 1962 cat. nor. 74; Werner Schmalenbach Kurt Schwitters Cologne 1967 with colour illus. p. 209; Michel Seuphor L'Art abstrait Paris 1972 cat. no. 21 with colour illus. p. 145

Provenance:

Provenance Oskar Müller und Annie Müller-Widmann Basel (1935-1952 for storage); Ernst Schwitters Lysaker und Edith Thomas London (1948); Sidney Janis Gallery New York (1952-1956); Leon Polk Smith New York (1956-1970/77); Galerie Gmurzynska Cologne (1977); Private collection Berlin