Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Kurt Schwitters
Wie es euch gefällt (As You Like It)
Auction Closed
November 15, 10:48 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prominent International Collector
Kurt Schwitters
1887 - 1948
Wie es euch gefällt (As You Like It)
signed Kurt Schwitters and dated 1946 (lower right); titled and inscribed (along lower edge)
collage, oil and paper mounted on card
17⅛ by 13 in.
43.8 by 33 cm.
Executed in 1946.
Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (acquired by descent from the artist in 1948)
Klipstein & Kornfeld Bern, June 1959, lot 772
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in 1962)
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 4 May 2011, lot 343 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Klipstein & Kornfeld Bern, June 1959, lot 772
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired in 1962)
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 4 May 2011, lot 343 (consigned by the estate of the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Norbert Lynton, The Story of Modern Art, Oxford, 1980, fig. 126, illustrated
Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné, 1937-1948, vol. III, Hanover, 2006, no. 3345, p. 559, illustrated
Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonné, 1937-1948, vol. III, Hanover, 2006, no. 3345, p. 559, illustrated