Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale Including Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso
Property from the former Collection of Werner Schmalenbach
Kurt Schwitters
Mz 231 Miss Blanche
Lot Closed
March 26, 12:05 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the former Collection of Werner Schmalenbach
Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
Mz 231 Miss Blanche
signed K. Schwitters. and dated 1923 (lower right) and titled (lower left)
collage on paper laid down on the artist's mount
Image size: 15.8 by 12.8cm., 6¼ by 5in.
Mount size: 31.2 by 22.1cm., 12¼ by 8¾in.
Framed: 37.2 by 31.2cm., 14⅝ by 12¼in.
Executed in 1921.
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (acquired by 1948)
Collection Werner Schmalenbach, Dusseldorf (acquired by 1956)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Collection Werner Schmalenbach, Dusseldorf (acquired by 1956)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Werner Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, Munich, 1984, no. 67, illustrated n.p.
Serge Lemoine, Dada, Geneva, 1986, illustrated in colour p. 58
Dian Pouw, ‘Kurt Schwitters in Hanover’, Un Vrij Nederland, Hanover, 1986, illustrated p. 22
John Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters, London/New York, 1987, no. 12, illustrated in colour p. 18
David A. Steel, ‘DADA-ADAD: Kurt Schwitters, Poetry, Collage, Typography and the Advert’, Word & Image, vol. 6, no. 2, April-June 1990, illustrated p. 206
Jean-Christophe Bailly, Kurt Schwitters, Paris, 1993, illustrated p. 99
Gabriele Mahn, ‘Merz et les Autres’, Beaux Art Magazine, Paris, 1994, illustrated in colour p. 44
Serge Lemoine, ‘Retrospective Schwitters’, Connaissance des Arts, vol. 512, 1994, no. 5, illustrated in colour
Hubert van den Berg ed., Holland's Bankroet door Dada: documenten van een dadaïstische triomftocht door Nederland, Amsterdam, 1995, illustrated p. 91
Dorothea Dietrich, ‘Merz and the Longing for Wholeness’, in Charlotte Stokes & Stephen C. Foster eds., Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, Dada: Cologne Hanover, New York, 1997,vol. III, no. 2.11, illustrated n.p.
K. Schippers, Holland Dada, Amsterdam, 2000, illustrated p. 104
Dorothea Dietrich, ‘Absenzen/Präsenzen. Kurt Schwitters‘ Späte Collagen’, Ausstellung Leipzig, 2000, illustrated p. 60
Werner Schmalenbach, Kunst!: Reden, Streiten, Schreiben, Cologne, 2000, illustrated in colour p. 72
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné 1923-1936, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, vol. II, no. 1114, illustrated p. 49
Serge Lemoine, Dada, Geneva, 1986, illustrated in colour p. 58
Dian Pouw, ‘Kurt Schwitters in Hanover’, Un Vrij Nederland, Hanover, 1986, illustrated p. 22
John Elderfield, Kurt Schwitters, London/New York, 1987, no. 12, illustrated in colour p. 18
David A. Steel, ‘DADA-ADAD: Kurt Schwitters, Poetry, Collage, Typography and the Advert’, Word & Image, vol. 6, no. 2, April-June 1990, illustrated p. 206
Jean-Christophe Bailly, Kurt Schwitters, Paris, 1993, illustrated p. 99
Gabriele Mahn, ‘Merz et les Autres’, Beaux Art Magazine, Paris, 1994, illustrated in colour p. 44
Serge Lemoine, ‘Retrospective Schwitters’, Connaissance des Arts, vol. 512, 1994, no. 5, illustrated in colour
Hubert van den Berg ed., Holland's Bankroet door Dada: documenten van een dadaïstische triomftocht door Nederland, Amsterdam, 1995, illustrated p. 91
Dorothea Dietrich, ‘Merz and the Longing for Wholeness’, in Charlotte Stokes & Stephen C. Foster eds., Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, Dada: Cologne Hanover, New York, 1997,vol. III, no. 2.11, illustrated n.p.
K. Schippers, Holland Dada, Amsterdam, 2000, illustrated p. 104
Dorothea Dietrich, ‘Absenzen/Präsenzen. Kurt Schwitters‘ Späte Collagen’, Ausstellung Leipzig, 2000, illustrated p. 60
Werner Schmalenbach, Kunst!: Reden, Streiten, Schreiben, Cologne, 2000, illustrated in colour p. 72
Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné 1923-1936, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2003, vol. II, no. 1114, illustrated p. 49