5th Oct, 2024 9:30 GMT/BST
Modern & Contemporary Art
535
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) German
Landscape
Initialled, oil on board, 25cm by 30cm
Provenance: Wantee Thomas
Thence by descent
Listed in the artist's catalogue raisonné.
Exhibited: "Kurt Schwitters 2.1.82- 28.2.82", Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was one of the most influential European avant-garde artists of the twentieth century. Associated with Dada, De Stijl and Constructivism, he produced a wide plethora of work including paintings, collages, sound pieces, found object sculptures and installation works, along with journalism, criticism, poetry and short stories, resulting in an incredibly diverse oeuvre.
Forced to flee Germany in 1937, Schwitters was interned as an enemy alien in 1940 on the Isle of Man. After being held with over 1000 other prisoners for over 15 months, Schwitters was finally released in December 1941, upon which he travelled to London where he met Edith "Wantee" Thomas when they both had rooms in the same lodging house. At the conclusion of WWII, the couple then went together to live in the Lake District, where Schwitters lived and worked until the end of his life. (Also see lot 600)
Sold for £9,000
Estimated at £2,000 - £3,000
Some light surface dirt. Two horizontal scratches from the centre of the sky down to the purple mountain on the right, this may be by design? Otherwise in good overall condition.
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Auction: Modern & Contemporary Art, 5th Oct, 2024
A fine selection of Modern and Contemporary Art will be offered this October, with important works including "Torpedo Fish" by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, "Houses, Trees and Ships" by Alfred Wallis and two paintings by Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis.
Also included in the sale are works by Christopher Wood, Henry Moore, Mary Fedden, Dame Eileen Mayo, John Hoyland, Sandra Blow, Bryan Pearce, Roger Hilton, Breon O'Casey and Sir Terry Frost.
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