Kurt Schwitters

Ohne Titel (Das Schachbild) (Untitled (The Chess Picture))

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June 16, 04:51 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

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Description

The World of Jean Stein

Kurt Schwitters

1887 - 1948

Ohne Titel (Das Schachbild) (Untitled (The Chess Picture))

Signed with the initials KS and dated 41 (lower right)

Collage, oil, paper and wood on plywood

11 ½ by 9 ½ in. (29.2 by 24.1 cm)

Framed: 20 by 15 ⅞ in. (50.8 by 40.3 cm)

Executed in 1941.

Estate of the artist
Ernst Schwitters (the artist's son; by descent from the above)
Lord's Gallery, London (on commission from 1958-66)
Marlborough Fine Art, London & Marlborough International Fine Art, Vaduz (on commission from 1971-85)
Acquired from the above in 1985

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Hanover, 2003, no. 2769, illustrated p. 294

London, Lord's Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, 1958, no. 42
Cambridge, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery; Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery; Leicester, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; Coventry, Herbert Temporary Art Gallery & Glasgow, Glasgow University Print Room, Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, 1959-60, no. 57
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Kurt Schwitters. Retrospektive, 1963, no. 230
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Kurt Schwitters in Exile: The Late Work, 1937-1948, 1981, no. 55, illustrated in the catalogue
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, 1985, no. 40, illustrated in color in the catalogue
New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Heinecken, 2002, no. II/5