
Art Institute of Chicago
For the Modern
Kurt Schwitters · 1947
Provenance
Ownership history
- G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh [undated label on the back of the collage]. Charlotte Weidler, by 1960. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York [a fax of Apr. 26, 1995, from Jeanne Havemeyer of B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago]; sold to Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, Inc., Chicago; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1960; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, "New Forms - New Media 1," 1960, cat. 65.
- Chicago, Worthington Gallery, "Kurt Schwitters: Dada, Collages, Drawings, Objects," 1982, p. 42 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Dawn Ades, with Margherita Andreotti and Adam Jolles, Surrealist Art: The Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 223-25, cat. 110 (color ill.).
- Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz (editors), Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné III (Hannover, 2006), p. 621, no. 3528 (ill.).
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