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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF ELLEN R. SUDDRETH, JULIE R. BAKER AND HENRY S. ROSENTHAL

KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)

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细节

KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
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signed with initials and dated 'KS 43' (lower left)
wood and printed paper collage on board laid down on card
6 1⁄8 x 4 3⁄4 in. (15.5 x 11.7 cm.)
Executed in 1943

来源

Ernst Schwitters, the artist's son, Lysaker.
The Lord's Gallery, London, on commission from the above, in 1958.
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1961.

出版

K. Orchard & I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1937-1948, Ostfildern, 2006, no. 3041, p. 421 (illustrated).

展览

London, The Lord's Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, October - November 1958, no. 53 (titled 'Girders').
Cambridge, The Arts Council, Kurt Schwitters, November - December 1959, no. 79; this exhibition later travelled to Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry, Herbert Temporary Art Gallery and Glasgow University Print Room.

注意事项

This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

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拍品专文

Ultimately, in a Merzbild, Schwitters explained, the 'material matters as little as I do myself. What matters is forming it. Since the material does not matter, I take whatever material I like, if the picture requires it. Because I balance different kinds of material against one another, I have an advantage over oil painting, for in addition to evaluating color against color, line against line, form against form, and so on, I also evaluate material against material—wood as opposed to burlap, for example…' (‘Merz,’ Der Ararat, 1921, quoted in R. Motherwell, The Dada Painters and Poets, London, 1989, pp. 55-65). Merz, in this way, comes to stand ultimately for “freedom from all fetters, for the sake of artistic creation. Freedom is not lack of restraint, but the product of strict artistic discipline” (Kurt Schwitters quoted in W. Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, Cologne, 1967, p. 78).

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