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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, EUROPE
KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
I 20
Details
KURT SCHWITTERS (1887-1948)
I 20
signed, dated and inscribed 'K. SCHWITTERS I 20' (on the artist's window mount)
paper collage and pencil laid down on card, laid down on the artist's window mount
image: 4 x 3 1⁄8 in. (10.2 x 8.1 cm.)
artist's mount: 8 5⁄8 x 5 7⁄8 in. (22 x 14.8 cm.)
Executed in 1920
I 20
signed, dated and inscribed 'K. SCHWITTERS I 20' (on the artist's window mount)
paper collage and pencil laid down on card, laid down on the artist's window mount
image: 4 x 3 1⁄8 in. (10.2 x 8.1 cm.)
artist's mount: 8 5⁄8 x 5 7⁄8 in. (22 x 14.8 cm.)
Executed in 1920
Provenance
Private collection, Europe, a gift from the artist in 1936, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, London, 24 June 2004, lot 395.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
W. Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, Cologne, 1967, p. 86 (illustrated; titled 'J 20. i-Zeichnung').
K. Orchard & I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1905-1922, Hanover, 2000, no. 748, p. 361 (illustrated).
K. Orchard & I. Schulz, eds., Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1905-1922, Hanover, 2000, no. 748, p. 361 (illustrated).
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