Sale: 591 / Day Sale, June 07. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000373
Lot 125000373 
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125000373
Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Acht), 1939.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 43,200 - 64,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Ohne Titel (Acht). 1939.
Oil on panel.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower left. 60.5 x 50.5 cm (23.8 x 19.8 in). [EH].
• Kurt Schwitters radically reinvents art while retaining a poetic touch.
• Exciting arrangement of lines and surfaces, with brushstrokes that clearly emphasize the materiality of the paint.
• The artist's son marked the reverse with the provisional catalog number “334.”
• The work has been displayed at international exhibitions.
• Kurt Schwitters attempts to solve artistic problems through various formal variations.
PROVENANCE: Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (1946, inherited from the artist).
Lord's Gallery, London (1958-1989 on commission).
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, and Galerie Harald Schweiger & Schulze, Vienna, 1989-1990.
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, 1990- before 2005 (with a label on the reverse).
German collection (since 2005).
EXHIBITION: Kurt Schwitters, Lord's Gallery, London, Oct./Nov. 1958, cat. no. 13.
Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge (with a label on the reverse) / Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea / Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield / Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester / Herbert Temporary Art Gallery, Coventry / Glasgow University Print Room, Glasgow, 1959/60, cat. no. 51.
Dada und Konstruktivismus, The Seibu Museum of Art Tokyo / Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki (Osaka) / The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 1988/89, cat. no. V.9, (no. 91) illustrated in color on p. 140.
Dadá y constructivismo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, no. (illustrated on p. 170).
Kurt Schwitters, Galerie Michael Werner, October 4–November 17, 1990, cat. no. 17 with illustration 17.
LITERATURE: Karin Orchard, Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters. Catalogue raisonné, published by the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, vol. 3: 1937-1948, Ostfildern 2006, catalog no. 2495, illustrated in color on p. 194.
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Jutta Nestegart, Kurt Schwitters i Norge. Unpublished typescript; master's thesis, Varen 1993, ill. 183.
Oil on panel.
Monogrammed and dated in the lower left. 60.5 x 50.5 cm (23.8 x 19.8 in). [EH].
• Kurt Schwitters radically reinvents art while retaining a poetic touch.
• Exciting arrangement of lines and surfaces, with brushstrokes that clearly emphasize the materiality of the paint.
• The artist's son marked the reverse with the provisional catalog number “334.”
• The work has been displayed at international exhibitions.
• Kurt Schwitters attempts to solve artistic problems through various formal variations.
PROVENANCE: Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (1946, inherited from the artist).
Lord's Gallery, London (1958-1989 on commission).
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, and Galerie Harald Schweiger & Schulze, Vienna, 1989-1990.
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, 1990- before 2005 (with a label on the reverse).
German collection (since 2005).
EXHIBITION: Kurt Schwitters, Lord's Gallery, London, Oct./Nov. 1958, cat. no. 13.
Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge (with a label on the reverse) / Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea / Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield / Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester / Herbert Temporary Art Gallery, Coventry / Glasgow University Print Room, Glasgow, 1959/60, cat. no. 51.
Dada und Konstruktivismus, The Seibu Museum of Art Tokyo / Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki (Osaka) / The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, 1988/89, cat. no. V.9, (no. 91) illustrated in color on p. 140.
Dadá y constructivismo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, no. (illustrated on p. 170).
Kurt Schwitters, Galerie Michael Werner, October 4–November 17, 1990, cat. no. 17 with illustration 17.
LITERATURE: Karin Orchard, Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters. Catalogue raisonné, published by the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, vol. 3: 1937-1948, Ostfildern 2006, catalog no. 2495, illustrated in color on p. 194.
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Jutta Nestegart, Kurt Schwitters i Norge. Unpublished typescript; master's thesis, Varen 1993, ill. 183.
125000373
Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Acht), 1939.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 43,200 - 64,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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