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A work made of collage composed of cut paper, fabric, cotton, and wooden elements, with oil paint, tacks, and nails, on wood-pulp board prepared with oil paint.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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  • A work made of collage composed of cut paper, fabric, cotton, and wooden elements, with oil paint, tacks, and nails, on wood-pulp board prepared with oil paint.

Date:

c. 1946

Artist:

Kurt Schwitters
German, 1887-1948

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 397

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Kurt Schwitters

Title

Untitled

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1941–1951

Medium

Collage composed of cut paper, fabric, cotton, and wooden elements, with oil paint, tacks, and nails, on wood-pulp board prepared with oil paint

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, verso: "Kurt Schwitters [...] / rot und rost [?]; inscribed lower center: "white frame [?]; inscribed upper center: "CO [...] H [...]"

Dimensions

29.5 × 22.8 cm (11 5/8 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Lindy and Edwin Bergman Collection

Reference Number

2018.351

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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