Mz 13 Call

Prints and Drawings

1919

Kurt Schwitters
German, 1887-1948

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Kurt Schwitters
Title: Mz 13 Call
Origin: Germany
Date: 1919
Medium: Collage composed of pen and black ink, brush and black wash, blue crayon and graphite, on a variety of cut wove paper elements, laid down on tan card
Dimensions: 180 × 146 mm
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg
Reference Number: 1953.24
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 413.
Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz (editors), Kurt Schwitters: Catalogue raisonné I (Hannover, 2000), p. 238, no. 499 (ill.).

Chicago, The Arts Club, “Schwitters,” November 25-December 16, 1952, cat. 2.
Chicago, Worthington Gallery, “Kurt Schwitters,” 1982.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections,” November 28, 1984-January 27, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Joseph Cornell and Twentieth-Century Collage,” August 3-November 30, 1985.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Mary Reynolds Collection,” October 1995-April 1996.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Shatter, Rupture, Break”, February 15 - May 3, 2015

Galerie Berggruen, Paris, 1952. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, by November 1952 [Chicago 1952]. Given by Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg to the Art Institute, 1953.

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