Mz 491

Details

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
Mz 491
paper collage on paper laid down on paper
Image size: 6 x 4 1/8 in. (15 x 10.4 cm.)
Mount size: 7 ½ x 5 1/8 in. (18.9 x 13 cm.)
Executed in 1922

Provenance

Herman Schütte, Hamburg (acquired from the artist, circa 1922-1925).
Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg (acquired from the above, 1970).
Anon. sale, Hauswedell, Hamburg, 5 June 1970, lot 1167.
Galerie Tarica, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, circa 1970.

Literature

K. Orchard and I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné, 1905-1922, Bonn, 2000, vol. 1, p. 494, no. 1016 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

According to Karen Orchard and Isabel Schulz, the first owner of the present work, the painter and sculptor Herman Schütte (1893-1974), "is reputed to have exchanged [the present] collage for one of his hairpin sculptures produced around 1925" (op. cit.).

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