LOT DETAILS

Materials:

paper and fabric collage on paper laid down on the artist' mount

Size Notes:

artist's mount: 10¾ x 8¼ in. (26.3 x 21 cm.)

Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed 'Mz 250.K.Schwitters.21.Grosser Tanz.' (on the artist's mount)

Exhibited:

Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts aus rheinisch-westfälischem Privatbesitz, April - June 1967, no. 328. Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Kurt Schwitters, January - March 1971, no. 58 (illustrated n.p.); this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Basel, Kunsthalle and Hamburg, Kunstverein.

Literature:

Beschlagnahme-Inventar, London, 1942, no. 8746 (erroneously presumed to be destroyed). W. Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, Cologne, 1967 (illustrated fig. 48). J. Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters, London, 1987 (illustrated pl. 22). K. Orchard & I. Schulz (eds.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1905-1922, Hannover, 2000, no. 841, p. 401 (illsutrated).

Provenance:

Nassauisches Landesmuseum, Wiesbaden (on loan from the Nassauischer Kunstverein, by whom acquired before 1929); confiscated as 'degenerate art' (EK inv. no. 8746) by the Reichsministerium für Propaganda und Volksaufklärung on 26 August 1937. Galerie Vömel, Dusseldorf, by 1967. Acquired by the late husband of the present owner in 1971.