拍品 368
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KURT SCHWITTERS | Ohne Titel (Scherenschnitt eines Unbekannten) Untitled (Silhouette of a Stranger)

估價
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
招標截止

描述

  • Kurt Schwitters
  • Ohne Titel (Scherenschnitt eines Unbekannten) Untitled (Silhouette of a Stranger)
  • signed K. Schwitters and dated 1914. (towards lower right)
  • collage on paper
  • 13,2 x 9,1 cm; 5 1/4 x 3 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 1919.

來源

Margaret Anderson, Paris
Galerie Jacaues Benador, Geneva (in 1977)
Private Collection (sale: Christie's, London, 11th February 2011, lot 89)
Private Collection, Germany
Acquired from the above by the present owner

出版

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters. Catalogue raisonné, 1905-22, Hannover, 2000, vol. I, no. 569, illustrated p. 264

Condition

Collage on paper. Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, affixed to the mount at several points. The collage element is stable and the sheet is slightly undulating. All corners are slightly scuffed with a minor repaired tear to the lower left corner and a crease to the lower left quadrant. There are two pinholes towards the centre of the collage element. The ink appears to have slightly faded. The sheet is slightly light stained with faint dots of foxing. This work is in overall good condition.
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