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KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
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signed with initials and dated 'K.S. 47' (lower left, on the artist's mount)
paper collage, fabric and newspaper laid down on the artist's mount
Image: 3 7/8 x 3 ½ in. (9.8 x 8.5 cm.)
Artist's mount: 5 7/8 x 5 ½ in. (14.5 x 13.8 cm.)
Executed in 1947
Ohne Titel (Ankündigungen)
signed with initials and dated 'K.S. 47' (lower left, on the artist's mount)
paper collage, fabric and newspaper laid down on the artist's mount
Image: 3 7/8 x 3 ½ in. (9.8 x 8.5 cm.)
Artist's mount: 5 7/8 x 5 ½ in. (14.5 x 13.8 cm.)
Executed in 1947
Provenance
Private collection, United Kingdom; sale, Christie's, London, 27 June 1989, lot 175.
Arthur Brandt, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
David & Daria Brandt, New York, by descent from the above; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 2019, lot 33.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Arthur Brandt, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
David & Daria Brandt, New York, by descent from the above; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 2019, lot 33.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
K. Orchard & I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1937-1948, Hanover, 2006, no. 3615, p. 651 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Kurt Schwitters, November 1994 - January 1995, p. 382 (titled 'Announcement [Petites annonciations]'); this exhibition later travelled to Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, May - June 1995; Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, September - November 1995.
New York, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism, and More from the Brandt Collection, October - December 2006, p. 138 (illustrated).
New York, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, A Private Eye: Dada, Surrealism, and More from the Brandt Collection, October - December 2006, p. 138 (illustrated).
Special Notice
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