LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Collage, oil and paper mounted on paper

Measurements:

17.24 in. (43.80 cm.) (height) by 12.99 in. (33.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Kurt Schwitters and dated 1946 (lower right); inscribed c 73 8 inch As you like it (along lower edge) and 5 inch (center of right, left and upper edges)

Literature:

Norbert Lynton, The Story of Modern Art, Oxford, 1980, illustrated fig. 126; Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné, 1937-1948, vol. III, Hanover, 2006, no. 3345, illustrated p. 559

Provenance:

Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (inherited from the artist in 1948); Sale: Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, June, 1959, lot 772; Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in 1962); Acquired from the above in 1963 and thence by descent;