Constructive Composition

1923

Kurt Schwitters

Artist, German, 1887 - 1948

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    collage attached to a wove support sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 13.5 × 11 cm (5 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.)
    support: 24.2 × 16 cm (9 1/2 × 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.127

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Orchard 2003, Vol. 2, no. 1126

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Artina, Paris). (Galerie Rudolph Zwirner, Cologne). (Galerie Rosenbach, Hannover, purchased 1971). (Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by March, 1980); (Annely Juda Fine Art, London, by July 1980). (Helen Serger/La Boetie, Inc., New York, by 1985); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C.; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • 20 Werke von Kurt Schwitters. Galerie Vörnel, Düsseldorf, 1971, no. 17.

1976

  • Autres dimensions: collages, assemblages, reliefs. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1976, no. 80.

1978

  • Petits Formats. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1978, no. 142.

1980

  • Abstraction 1910-1940. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1980 (not in cat.).

  • Lettres et chiffres. Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1980, no. 79.

1982

  • Collages and Reliefs 1910-1945. Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 1982, no. 56 (repro. p. 58).

  • Kurt Schwitters: Dada, Collages, Drawings, Objects. Worthington Gallery, Inc. Chicago, 1982 (repro. p. 25).

1985

  • Kurt Schwitters: Words and Works. Helen Serger/La Boetie, Inc., New York, 1985, no. 16.

2014

  • Modern German Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014.

Bibliography

2006

  • Orchard, Karin and Isabel Schulz. Kurt Schwitters, catalogue raisonné. 3 vols. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000-2006: vol. 2, no. 1126

Inscriptions

below image, in graphite: K Schwitters 1923

Wikidata ID

Q64592609

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