SCHWITTERS, KURT1887 Hannover - 1948 Ambleside


Title: Untitled (Fiskutsalgs Eftf.).
Subtitle: Merzzeichnung.
Date: 1936/39.
Technique: Paper collage on painted card.
Measurement: 17 x 13,5cm, mounted on original pad: 19,5 x 26,5cm.
Notation: Signed lower left on the pad: Kurt Schwitters. Inscribed by a hand other than that of the artist verso: preliminary oeuvre catal. No. 1936/39, 582.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.


Provenance:
- Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (1948-1988 through inheritance from the artist)
- Klipstein & Kornfeld, 1956
- Private collection
- Galerie Papbst, Munich (stamp)
- Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne 1989 (label)
- Galerie Remmerth & Barth, Düsseldorf 1989
- Private collection Hesse

Exhibitions:
- Galerie Gmurzynska bei der FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris 1984
- Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne 1984-1985
- Galerie Michael Pabst, Munich 1988-1989

Literature:
- Orchard, Karin/Schulz, Isabel: Kurt Schwitters - Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 1923-1936,
Ostfildern-Ruit 2003, cat. rais. no. 2080, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Nouvelles Acquisitions 1984/Neuerwerbungen, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne; FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris 1984, p. 67, cat. no. p.67, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Die Collage, Galerie Michael Pabst, Munich 1988, cat. no. 35, ill. 35
- Nestegard, Jutta: Kurt Schwitters i Norge, unpublished. Typoscript, master's thesis, Varen 1993, ill. 92
- Stadtmüller, Klaus (ed.): Schwitters in Norwegen. Arbeiten, Dokumente, Ansichten, Hanover 1997, p. 50, ill.


- The collages are among the artist's most sought-after works on the international art market
- Humorous example from the series of Merz drawings due to the arrangement of the photographic pictorial elements
- Interesting provenance.