signed with the initials and dated 37 (lower left); signed, dated 1937, titled and inscribed on the reverse

55.2 by 55 cm., 21¾ by 21¾ in.

Executed in 1937.

Ernst Schwitters, Lysaker (the artist's son)

▨Marlborough International Fine Art, London/ Marlborough-Gersoꦅn Gallery, New York (1962-1978)

Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne (1978-1979)

Acquired from the above by the present owner in𝄹 ꦆ1979 (on theadvice of Harald Szeemann)

London, Marlborough Fine Art, Schwitters, 1963, no. 184, p. 82; catalogue, illustrated

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Kölnischen Kunstverein, Kurt Schwitters, 1887-1948, 1963; catalogue, no. 185, p. 78, illustrated

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Kurt Schwitters,1887-1948, schilderijen, collages, sculpturen, tekeningen; catalogue, 1964,no. 185, n.p., illustrated

Los Angeles, UCLA; New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery; Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Musem of Art & Toronto, ArtGallery, Kurt Schwitters, Retrospective, 1965, no. 138; catalogue p. 69, illustrated

Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco, Museum of Art & St. Louis, City Art Museum, Kurt Schwitters, ARetrospective Exhibition, 1965-66, no. 129

Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Berlin, Akademie der Künste; Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie; Basel, Kunsthalle & Hamburg, Kustverein, Kurt Schwitters, 1971

Cologne, Galerie Gmurzynska, Kurt Schwitters, 1978; catalogue, no. 57, p. 120, illustrated

Zurich, Kunsthaus; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Vienna, Museumdes 20. Jahrhunderts & Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Der Hangzum Gesamtkunstwerk, 1983-84

Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, "... undnicht die leiseste Spur einer Vorschrift", Positionenunabhängiger Kunst in Europa um 1937, 1987-88; catalog🦩ue, no. 84, illustrated on the cover of the catal💮ogue and p. 166

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou; Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez & Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Kurt Schwitters, 1994-95; catalogue (Paris) p. 275;💜 and (Valencia), p. 345, illustrated

Werner Schmalenbach, Kurt Schwitters, Munich 1984, no. 135, illustrated p. 367

Andreas Hüneke, "Zum 100.Gerburstag von Kurt Schwitters", in Bildende Kunst, vol. 6, 1987, pp. 277-279, illustrated p. 278


Michael Erlhoff & Klaus Stadtmüller, Kurt Schwitters Almanach No. 9, Hanover 1990, mentioned p. 38

Karin Orchard & Isabel Schulz, Kurt Schwitters. Catalogue raisonné, Volume 3, 1937-1948, Ostfildern 2006, no. 2115, illustrated p. 42


Megan R. Luke, "An Art History of Intensive Intentions", in Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute (travelling exhibition also passing through Bern, Düsseldorf & Turin), 201🎃8-19, ment🌱ioned in the Los Angeles catalogue pp. 195-196