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KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)

Lot 188
09.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 40 000
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Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 188 | KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
Mz 240 Spitzen
signed, dated, numbered and inscribed 'K. Schwitters. 1921. Mz 240 Spitzen.' (on the artist’s mount); indistinctly numbered again and inscribed ‘Mz 240. 500.’ (on the reverse)
fabric and paper collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
image: 5 7/8 x 4 7/8 in. (15 x 12.3 cm.)
artist’s mount: 8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.5 x 15.6 cm.)
Executed in 1921




Provenance

Mrs Kate T. & Dr Ernst Steinitz, Hanover & Los Angeles, by whom probably acquired directly from the artist, until at least 1971.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, by 1978.
Private collection, Berlin.
Graphisches Kabinett, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, by 1988.
Private collection, Munich, by 1989; sale, Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 1 June 1990, lot 54.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired at the above sale; sale, Sotheby's, London, 18 October 2000, lot 248.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

W. Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, New York, 1967, no. 50, p. 366 (illustrated n.p.; with incorrect provenance).
K. Orchard & I. Schulz, Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1905-1922, Hanover, 2000, no. 834, p. 398 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 1959 - February 1960, no. L.2353.59-2 (on loan).
Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Kurt Schwitters, June - July 1962, no.79, n.p..
Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, Kurt Schwitters: Retrospective, March - April 1965, no. 47, p. 22; this exhibition later travelled to New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, May - June 1965; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, July - August 1965; and Toronto, Toronto Art Gallery, September - October 1965.
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Kurt Schwitters: A Retrospective Exhibition, November - December 1965, no. 44, p. 56; this exhibition later travelled to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, January - February 1966; and Saint Louis, City Art Museum, March - April 1966.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Kate Steinitz Collection, August - September 1969, n.p. (dated '1920').
Dusseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Kurt Schwitters, January - March 1971, no. 66, p. 33; this exhibition later travelled to Berlin, Akademie der Künste, March - April 1971; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, May - July 1971; Basel, Kunsthalle, July - September 1971; and Hamburg, Kunstverein, September - November 1971.
Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zu Gast bei Kate Steinitz, November 1977 - February 1978 (no cat).
Bremen, Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Kurt Schwitters, Der Künstler von MERZ, October - December 1989, no. 9, n.p. (illustrated n.p.; with incorrect provenance).
New York, Michael Werner Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, October - November 1990, no. 5, n.p. (illustrated n.p.; with inverted dimensions).
Dusseldorf, Achenbach Kunsthandel, Kurt Schwitters, November 1993 - January 1994 (no cat.).
Zurich, Galerie Lelong, Kurt Schwitters, April - June 1994 (no cat.).
Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, The Age of Modernism, Art in the 20th Century, May - July 1997, no. 234, n.p. (illustrated; with incorrect medium and dimensions).
Miami, Miami Art Museum, Between Art and Life: Selections from the Collection, November 2003 - April 2004.
Artist:Kurt Schwitters (1887 - 1948)
Applied technique:Collage
Medium:Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic
Art style:Modern art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Watercolors and drawings
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