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Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
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signed, dated and titled 'Kurt Schwitters 1947 No charge for delivery' (on the artist's mount)
paper and fabric collage laid down on paper laid down on board
Image size: 9 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (24.5 x 19.8 cm.)
Mount size: 12 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (31.4 x 26 cm.)
Executed in 1947

来源

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (by 1959).

出版

H. Janis and R, Blesh, Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques, Philadelphia, 1962, p. 83 (illustrated).
I. Ewig, "Retour vers le futur. Présentation de la correspondance Kurt Schwitters--Raoul Hausmann, 1946-1947," Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, 2001, booklet 76 (illustrated, p. 28).
H. Cantz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, Bonn, 2006, vol. III, p. 633, no. 3564 (illustrated).

展览

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 75 Collages by Kurt Schwitters, February-March 1959, no. 75 (illustrated).
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 50 Collages by Schwitters, April-May 1962.
Pasadena Art Museum; Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; University of Minnesota and Louisville, J.B. Speed Art Museum, Kurt Schwitters, June 1962-March 1963.
Buenos Aires, Centro de Artes Visuales del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Letras en el arte moderno, July-August 1965.

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