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Abstraction

© 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

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

© Estate of Kurt Schwitters / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany

Image downloads are for educational use only. For all other purposes, please see our Obtaining and Using Images page.

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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Provenance

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

Class

Paintings

Work Type

Oil painting

Information may change due to ongoing research.Glossary of Terms

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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