LOT DETAILS

Materials:

collage, wood canvas and paper mounted on paper

Size Notes:

Image; Mount: 32 x 28.5 cm

Markings:

signed Kurt Schwitters, dated 1947 (lower left) and titled (lower right) on the artist's mount

Literature:

Letter from Sidney Janis to Édith Thomas, 27th September 1955, no. 12. 'Liste Edith Thomas 2' in . Édith Thomas Papers , Tate Archives, London. Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, . Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, 1937-1948 , Hannover, 2003, vol. II, no. 3606, illustrated p. 647

Provenance:

Estate of the Artist. Édith Thomas, London (acquired from the above in 1948). Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, New York (acquired by 1956). Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (acquired in 1956). William N. Copley, Paris & New York. Barnet Hodes, Chicago (sale: Christie's, New York, 12th November 1984, lot 45). Saidenberg Gallery, New York. Private Collection, Hamburg (acquired from the above). Thence by descent to the present owner