LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Collage oil paper and fabric on fibreboard

Measurements:

30.51 in. (77.50 cm.) (height) by 23.23 in. (59.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

On the verso dated and inscribed with Ernst Schwitters' preliminary oeuvre number 'Oeuvre-Nr 1942/43, 968' in pencil and black ink verso

Condition:

Framed under glass; Minimal traces of moisture on single elements of the collage

Exhibited:

Exhibitions Cologne 1978 (Galerie Gmurzynska) Kurt Schwitters cat. no. 82 with colour illus. p. 123 (adhesive label verso); New York/London/Hanover 1985/1986 (Museum of Modern Art/Tate Gallery/Sprengel Museum) Kurt Schwitters cat. no. 283 with illus. (frame label verso)

Literature:

Literature Yusuke Nakahara From the Lifeless View of Scrapping in: Bijutsu Techo no. 31 issue 452 Tokio 1979 with illus.; John Elderfield Kurt Schwitters Düsseldorf 1987 p. 219 with illus. cat. no. 278.; Ulrike Kristin Schmidt Kunstzitat und Provokation im 20. Jahrhundert Weimar 2000 cat. no. 30 with illus. p. 79

Provenance:

Provenance Ernst Schwitters Lysaker (1948-1979); Galerie Gmurzynska Cologne (1979); Private collection Berlin