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Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Acht), 1939.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 45,200 - 67,800
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-
Kurt Schwitters, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, April 26–June 21, 1994.
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 Unpublished typescript; master's thesis, Varen 1993, ill. 183.
Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 16.32 h +/- 20 min.
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-
Kurt Schwitters, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, April 26–June 21, 1994.
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.
Called up: June 7, 2025 - ca. 16.32 h +/- 20 min.
214
Kurt Schwitters
Ohne Titel (Acht), 1939.
Oil on panel
Estimate:
€ 40,000 - 60,000
$ 45,200 - 67,800
Buyer's premium and taxation for Kurt Schwitters "Ohne Titel (Acht)"
This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
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