LOT DETAILS

Materials:

paper and fabric collage laid down on paper laid down on board

Size Notes:

Image size: (24.5 x 19.8 cm.)

Markings:

signed, dated and titled 'Kurt Schwitters 1947 No charge for delivery' (on the artist's mount)

Exhibited:

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 75 Collages by Kurt Schwitters, February-March 1959, no. 75 (illustrated). New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 50 Collages by Schwitters, April-May 1962. Pasadena Art Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; University of Minnesota and Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Kurt Schwitters, June 1962-March 1963. Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Letras en el arte moderno, July-August 1965.

Literature:

H. Janis and R, Blesh, Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques, Philadelphia, 1962, p. 83 (illustrated). I. Ewig, "Retour vers le futur. Présentation de la correspondance Kurt Schwitters--Raoul Hausmann, 1946-1947," Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, 2001, booklet 76 (illustrated, p. 28). H. Cantz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Bonn, 2006, vol. III, p. 633, no. 3564 (illustrated).

Provenance:

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by 1959).