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Z 100 Hochgebirge
Details
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Z 100 Hochgebirge
signed with the artist's initials 'KS' (lower left)
black chalk on paper
7 5/8 x 5½ in. (19.4 x 14 cm.)
Drawn in 1918; formerly laid down on the artist's mount, which has since been removed
Z 100 Hochgebirge
signed with the artist's initials 'KS' (lower left)
black chalk on paper
7 5/8 x 5½ in. (19.4 x 14 cm.)
Drawn in 1918; formerly laid down on the artist's mount, which has since been removed
Provenance
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker, a gift from the artist, from 1948 to 1965.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York.
Ned L. Pines, by whom acquired from the above in 1965; his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1990, lot 266.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York.
Ned L. Pines, by whom acquired from the above in 1965; his estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 1990, lot 266.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
K. Orchard & I. Schulz (eds.), Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1905-1922, Hannover, 2000, no. 342, p. 156 (illustrated).
K. Behm, Die frühen Nachkriegszeichnungen von Kurt Schwitters (1918-1923), Universität Marburg, 1997 (MA thesis, unpublished).
K. Behm, Die frühen Nachkriegszeichnungen von Kurt Schwitters (1918-1923), Universität Marburg, 1997 (MA thesis, unpublished).
Exhibited
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Kurt Schwitters, February - March 1956, no. 13; this exhibition later travelled to Bern, Kunsthalle, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts and Liège.
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, December 1960, no. 3.
Ulm, Museum, Kurt Schwitters, March - April 1961, no. 35.
Stockholm, Konstsalongen Samiaren i Konstnärshuset, Kurt MERZ Schwitters, 1962, no. 17; this exhibition later travelled to Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst og Kunstforeningen, London, Marlborough Fine Art, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Milan, Toninelli Arte Moderna and Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte.
Los Angeles, University of California, Kurt Schwitters Retrospective, March - April 1965; this exhibition later travelled to New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery and Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, December 1960, no. 3.
Ulm, Museum, Kurt Schwitters, March - April 1961, no. 35.
Stockholm, Konstsalongen Samiaren i Konstnärshuset, Kurt MERZ Schwitters, 1962, no. 17; this exhibition later travelled to Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst og Kunstforeningen, London, Marlborough Fine Art, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Milan, Toninelli Arte Moderna and Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte.
Los Angeles, University of California, Kurt Schwitters Retrospective, March - April 1965; this exhibition later travelled to New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery and Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
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