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Kurt Schwitters

Ohne Titel (It's the Tobacco that Counts)

Lot Closed

March 17, 04:42 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Kurt Schwitters

1887 - 1948

Ohne Titel (It's the Tobacco that Counts)

signed K.Schwitters (lower left on mount); bears the inscription 1943 (lower left on the mount)

collage on paper mounted on card

collage: 4¾ by 4 in. (14.5 by 10.2 cm.)

mount: 10⅞ by 8 in. (27.7 by 20.3 cm.)

Executed in 1937.

Estate of the artist

Ernst Schwitters, Norway (the artist's son; by descent from the above)

Rose Fried Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1956)

Geraldine Spreckels Fuller, Palm Beach

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York (bequest from the above in 1999)

Sotheby's New York, 9 May 2001, lot 406 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Hanover, 2003, no. 2245, p. 85, illustrated