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    • Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
    Lot 181

    Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

    Mz 30,34

    Price realised

    GBP 47,500

    Estimate

    GBP 25,000 - GBP 35,000

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    Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)
    Mz 30,34
    signed, dated and inscribed 'Kurt Schwitters 1930 Mz 30,34' (on the artist's mount)
    sandpaper and paper collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
    image: 4 7/8 x 4 1/4 in. (12.1 x 10.5 cm.)
    artist's mount: 9 7/8 x 6 1/2 in. (25 x 16.3 cm.)
    Executed in 1930

    Provenance

    Charlotte Weidler, New York, from 1962 to 1963.
    Private collection, Zurich, 2002.
    Anonymous sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 7 December 2002, lot 1033.
    Armin Hundertmark, Spain; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 June 2006, lot 142.
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    K. Orchard & I. Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, 1923-1926, Hannover, 2003, no. 1697 (illustrated p. 332).


    Exhibited

    Pasadena, Art Museum, Kurt Schwitters, July 1962 - May 1963, no. 45; this exhibition later travelled to Manchester, NH, The Currier Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, Minneapolis, MN, The University of Minnesota, and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University, Busch-Reisinger Museum.
    New York, Galerie Chalette, Kurt Schwitters, October - November 1963, no. 40 (illustrated p. 29).


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    Special Notice


    Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.


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