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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Ohne Titel (Schatzi)
signed 'Kurt Schwitters' (on the artist's mount)
paper collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
Image size: 5¼ x 4 in. (13.3 x 10.2 cm.) Mount size: 10 x 7¾ in. (25.4 x 19.7 cm.)
Executed in 1920

Provenance

Carlo van den Bosch, Antwerp (1956).
Betty Barman, Brussels.
Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (by 1961).

Literature

K. Orchard and I. Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Bonn, 2000, vol. I, p. 352, no. 722 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Liege, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Kurt Schwitters, October-December 1956, no. 38.
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. (no. 52); Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Kölnischen Kunstverein; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, and Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte (no. 26), Kurt Schwitters, March 1963-May 1964, no. 53 (London: illustrated, p. 52; Cologne: illustrated, n.p.; Rotterdamn: illustrated, p. 52).
London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Modern Masters: Drawings and Watercolours, November-December 1966, p. 24, no. 95 (illustrated, p. 25).

Lot Essay

This lot is being sold by the Honorable Ethel J. Griffin, New York County Public Administrator, by the authority given her under Letters of Administration issued by the Surrogates Court of the State of New York, County of New York. No claim has been asserted by any person or entity contesting the Estates ownership of this work.

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