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Kurt Schwitters

Ohne Titel (Verschwommene Formen)

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Kurt Schwitters

1887-1948


Ohne Titel (Verschwommene Formen) Untitled (Blurred Forms)

signed with initials KS and dated 43 (lower right)

oil on cardboard mounted on paper

76.6 by 54.2 cm. 30⅛ by 21⅜ in.

Executed in 1943.

Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (acquired by descent from the artist in 1948)

Lord’s Gallery, London (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 1971 by the present owner

London, Lord's Gallery, Kurt Schwitters, 1958, no. 22 (titled White Drage)

Cambridge, Arts Council Gallery; Swansea, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery; Leicester, Leicester Museum and Art Gallery; Coventry, Herbert Temporary Art Gallery and Glasgow, University Print Room, Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, 1959-60, no. 84

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Kurt Schwitters in Exile: The Late Work 1937-1948, 1981, no. 82, p. 136, illustrated

Seibu Takanawa, The Museum of Modern Art; Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, 1983, no. 163, illustrated

Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz, eds., Kurth Schwitters, Catalogue Raisonne - volume 3: 1937-1948, Hannover, 2006, no. 3020, p. 413, reproduced