Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

It's Terrific!

Details

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
It's Terrific!
signed with initials and dated 'KS 44' (center left)
printed paper collage on leather-bound book cover
12 3/8 x 21 1/8 in. (31.5 x 53.9 cm.)
Executed in 1944

Provenance

The London Gallery (1950).
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner, December 1953.

Literature

K. Orchard and I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Bonn, 2006, vol. 3, p. 438, no. 3091.

Exhibited

The London Gallery, An Hommage to Kurt Schwitters and Sculpture by Rolanda Polonsky and Recent Work by the English Painter Stella Snead, April-May 1950, no. 25.

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Lot Essay

Dr. Karin Orchard and Dr. Isabel Schulz, editors of the Kurt Schwitters catalogue raisonné, have confirmed that this work is authentic and that it corresponds to no. 3091 currently listed in volume III of the catalogue raisonné.

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