
© Estate of Kurt Schwitters / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
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© Estate of Kurt Schwitters / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
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© Estate of Kurt Schwitters / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
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Kurt Schwitters
German, 1887-1948
Abstraction, ca. 1917-1918
oil on panel
support: 27 x 19 1/2 inches (68.58 x 49.53 cm); overall: 36 1/4 x 29 x 3 1/4 inches (92.075 x 73.66 x 8.255 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
George B. and Jenny R. Mathews, and Edmund Hayes Funds, 1975
1975:10V
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Herwarth Walden [1879-1941], Berlin;probably to Leo Castelli Gallery, New York;
by 1952 and until at least 1956, with Sidney Janis Gallery, New York;
by 1958, Herbert [1891-1976] and Nannette [1897-1979] Rothschild, New York; Annely Juda Fine Art, London;
November 13, 1975, sold by Annely Juda Fine Art to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
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This is one side of a double-sided painting. For the reverse side, please see Kurt Schwitters’s Verschobene Flächen (Shifted Planes).
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