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Kurt Schwitters

Herrn Kurt

1921

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Kurt Schwitters

Herrn Kurt

1921

Physical Qualities Collage of colored papers and letters, Image: 180 × 144 mm. (7 1/16 × 5 11/16 in.) Mount: 252 × 205 mm. (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Print Fund
Object Number 1960.67
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1960; Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York, until 1960.
Art Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, no. 1, Spring 1961, p. 104.

Inscribed: RECTO: on mount: LL (graphite): 'Mez 346/ Herrn Kurt'; LR: 'K. Schwitters.22'; VERSO: [seemingly random graphite gestural marks on lower half]; URE: [vertical] 'KS'

Artist

Kurt Schwitters

1886–1947

German, 1887-1948
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