Sale: 386 / Modern Art, Dec. 10. 2011 in Munich Lot 89

 
Kurt Schwitters - Ohne Titel (Bridge House, Ambleside, Frontalansicht)


89
Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Bridge House, Ambleside, Frontalansicht), 1945.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,420
Sold:
€ 6,250 / $ 6,687

(incl. surcharge)
Oil on cardboard.
Orchard/Schulz 3163. Monogrammed and dated lower right (scratched into wet paint). Signed and dated on verso. 26,5 x 19,6 cm (10,4 x 7,7 in).

PROVENANCE: Private ownership Mühlheim/Ruhr.
Almuth and Otto-Albrecht Neumüller, Mühlheim/Ruhr, since 1981.
Private collection North-Rhine Westphalia.

LITERATURE: Sotheby's London, October 1980, cat. no. 504 (with illu.).
Karl & Faber, Munich, auction 155, June 1981, cat. no. 1604 (with illu. plate 104).

Appealing small study. Characteristic of the impressionist tendencies that dominated his last years of creation. [KD].




89
Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Bridge House, Ambleside, Frontalansicht), 1945.
Oil on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 6,000 / $ 6,420
Sold:
€ 6,250 / $ 6,687

(incl. surcharge)